"
"How?" asts I.
"WE'LL PUT UP AND SELL A PREPARATION TO TURN THE
NEGROES WHITE!"
THAT was his great idea. He was more excited
over it than I ever seen him before about anything.
It sounded like so easy a way to get rich it made
me wonder why no one had ever done it before,
if it could really be worked. I didn't believe much
it could be worked.
But Doctor Kirby, he says he has begun his
experiments already, with arsenic. Arsenic, he
says, will bleach anything. Only he is kind of
afraid of arsenic, too. If he could only get hold of
something that didn't cost much, and that would
whiten them up fur a little while, he says, it wouldn't
make no difference if they did get black agin.
This here Anti-Curl stuff works like that--it
takes the kinks out fur a little while, and they come
back agin. But that don't seem to hurt the sale
none. It only calls fur MORE of Doctor Jackson's
medicine.
The doctor takes me around to the place he boards
at, and shows me a nigger waiter he has been ex-
perimenting on. He had paid the nigger's fine in a
police court fur slashing another nigger some with
a knife, and kept him from going into the chain-
gang. So the nigger agreed he could use his hide
to try different kinds of medicines on. He was a
velvety-looking, chocolate-coloured kind of nigger
to start with, and the best Doctor Kirby had been
able to do so fur was to make a few little liver-
coloured spots come onto him.
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