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IF YOU GIVE A PPERSON A PIN OR A KNIFE, THE ERSON
MUST PICK HIMSELF WITH THE PIN OR ELSE GIVE THE
PERSON WHO GAVE HIM THE PIN OR KNIFE A PENNY.
IF THIS ISN'T DONE, THE TWO PEOPLE WILL GET INTO A
FIGHT AND WILL BECOME ENEMIES.

Submitter comment: SHE HEARD THIS SINCE THE TIME SHE WAS SMALL.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank
BELIEF -- Use of Object Manufactured objects, homemade, machined
BELIEF -- Use of Object Human beings and their activities

Date learned: 11-07-1967

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