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...music of the git-fiddle thrummed through the hot Georgia night, setting nerves to throbbing in the little town of Euharlee. In the harsh, yellow light of a lantern, youthful Gordon Miller cried aloud: "I ain't had this power but about a month now. But I got the power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...
...Some cats say Old Satch is oldfashioned, not modern enough. Why, man, most of that modern stuff I first heard in 1918. Ain't no music out of date as long as you play it perfect. . . . You give me the music, I'll figure out what to do about...
...highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
...questioning, told another story. Willie ("Peewee") Bell said that he had been the chief target of Warden Worthy's rage. When the warden told him to step out of the group, Peewee said, he knew what was coming. He remembered his own words to Worthy: "Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot into the other convicts...
Whether, like Albert, Philip would live up to these words; whether, like Albert, he would become Prince Consort in title as well as in fact were questions for the solemn future. For the moment, most Britons were content with the romantic present. "Ain't he just the answer," cooed a Bradford woolworker over Philip last week. "Me an' 'erbert's gettin' married abaht October...