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ON JAMS
THE JAM, WHICH IS SANG OF IN THE SONG THE JAM ON GERRIES ROCK,
WAS WHEN THE LOGS WHICH WERE BEING FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER,
WOUULD JAM UP. THE CAUSE OF THIS WOULD BE THAT ONE OR TWO
LOGS WOULD TURN SIDEWAYS, INSTEAD OF FLOATING END FIRST DOWN
THE RIVER. YOU SEE THE MEN WOULD CUT THESE LOGS IN THE WIN-
TER TIME, AND THEY WERE HAULED BY SLEIGH TO A RIVER AND PILED
ON THE BANK, AND THEN IN THE SPRING, WHEN THE ICE MELTED IN
THE RIVERS, AND THE WATER WAS HIGH, THE LOGS WERE DUMPED INTO
THE RIVER AND FLOATED DOWN STREAM TO A LUMBER MILL, WHERE THEY
WERE SAWED INTO LUMBER. I SAW THIS ALL HAPPEN WHEN I WAS A
CHILD AT MICHELSON, HERE IN ROSCOMMON COUNTY.
Submitter comment: MRS. TOWNE'S VERSION OF "THE JAM ON GERRY'S ROCK" IS SQ 821362-2.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HOUGHTON LAKE
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Date learned: 00001930S
STATUS SYMBOL
IN ENGLAND, A PROPER GENTLEMAN CAN ALWAYS BE
SPOTTED BY LOOKING AT HIS UMBRELLA. IF THERE IS DUST
COLLECTED IN THE FOLDS, THEN YOU KNOW HE IS A TRUE
GENTLEMEN-HIS UMBRELLA(OR BROLLY) HAS NEVER BEEN
OPENED;IT IS STILL IN ITS ORGINAL SHEATH,AS WHEN HE
PURCHASED IT. THE REGULAR FOLK ACTUALLY USE THEIR
THEIR UMBRELLAS-HE DOES NOT. IT IS A PURE, UNTAINTED STATUS
SYMBOL. IF IT RAINS HIS COURSE OF ACTION IS OBVIOUS:
HE PUTS ON HIS MACK BUT WILL NEVER OPEN THAT BUMBERSHOOT.
Where learned: ENGLAND
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Date learned: 09-00-1983
FATTY, FATTY, TWO BY FOUR,
CAN'T GET THROUGH THE BATHROOM DOOR,
SO SHE DID IT ON THE FLOOR.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; BALDWIN COUNTY ; FOLEY
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MUSTARD, SMEARED ON THE CHEST, THEN COVERED WITH HOT TOWELS
WILL RELIEVE THE SYMPTOMS OF A COMMON COLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GLADSTONE ; UPPER PENINSULA
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IF YOU EAT BUTTER BEFORE YOU DRINK, IT WILL COAT YOUR
STOMACH AND YOU WON'T GET DRUNK. JUST BITE RIGHT INTO A
STICK OF BUTTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; EAST SIDE
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Date learned: 00-00-1983
JOKE
"ONE NIGHT A LITTLE BOY WAS SAYING HIS PRAYERS AND HIS
PARENTS WERE LISTENING TO HIM AS HE NAMED OFF ALL OF
THE PEOPLE HE WANTED GOD TO BLESS. HE SAID, 'GOD BLESS
MOMMY. GOD BLESS DADDY. GOODBYE GRANDPA.' HIS PARENTS WERE
VERY UPSET BY THIS BUT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING TO THE BOY.
THE NEXT DAY THE FATHER LEARNED THAT HIS FATHER HAD PASSED AWAY.
THIS SCARED THE FATHER TERRIBLY. HE THOUGHT THAT HIS SON
MAY HAVE SOME KIND OF PSYCHIC POWER. WELL, THAT NIGHT
WHEN THE LITTLE BOY WAS SAYING HIS PRAYERS HE SAID, 'GOD
BLESS MOMMY. GOODBYE DADDY.' THIS FRIGHTENED THE FATHER
TERRIBLY AND THE FOLLOWING DAY HE WAS VERY CAUTIOUS. HE
WAS VERY CAREFUL DRIVING TO WORK, HE WAS VERY CAREFUL AT
WORK, ETC. SO THAT NIGHT WHEN HE WAS DRIVING HOME FROM
WORK, HE DECIDED THAT HIS SON WASN'T PSYCHIC AFTER ALL AND
THAT HE WAS JUST OVERACTING. HE WAS STILL ALIVE, WASN'T HE?
SO THE MAN PULLED UP INTO HIS GARAGE, WHISTLING TO
HIMSELF AND VERY HAPPY. BUT WHEN HE REACHED HIS PORCHED
HE STOPPED COLD--THERE LYING DEAD ON THE PORCH WAS THE MAILMAN!
Where learned: NEW YORK ; ROCHESTER
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Date learned: 00001965CA
GHOST STORY
"WHEN MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, SHE
MOVED INTO AN APARTMENT BY HERSELF. AT THAT TIME SHE WAS IN
HER EARLY TWENTIES AND LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY. SHE LIVED
IN THE UPPERMOST APARTMENT. IT WAS AN ATTIC WHICH HAD BEEN
CONVERTED INTO AN APARTMENT. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS VERY
QUIET AND NEVER SPOKE TO ANYONE. EXCEPT ONE DAY A LADY
DRESSED IN A WOMAN'S VERSION OF A SAILOR SUIT CAME BY AND
VISITED MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER DIDN'T
KNOW HER BUT SHE STILL INVITED HER IN. EVENTUALLY THEY
BECAME GOOD FRIENDS. THE LADY CAME BY AND VISITED MY GREAT-
GRANDMOTHER EVERY DAY. ONE DAY, HOWEVER, THE LADY DIDN'T
COME. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WASN'T REAL WORRIED ABOUT IT
UNTIL A WHOLE WEEK WENT BY WITHOUT THE WOMAN VISITING HER.
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER THEN WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND SPOKE TO HER
LANDLADY. SHE ASKED HER LANDLADY ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS
WOMAN DRESSED IN A SAILOR SUIT. THE LANDLADY WAS SHOCKED.
SHE TOLD MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER THAT THE WOMAN SHE WAS
TALKING ABOUT HAD BEEN DEAD FOR SOME TIME; SHE HAD HANGED
HERSELF IN MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S APARTMENT SHORTLY BEFORE
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER HAD MOVED IN."
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; CARTERET
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Date learned: 00001973CA