The Conjure Woman

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Section one of The Conjure Woman.

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Section one of The Conjure Woman by Charles Waddell Chesnutt.

The Goofard Grapevine.

I believe, however, that the wages I paid him for his services as coachman—for I gave him employment in that capacity— were more than an equivalent for anything he lost by the sale of the vineyard.

Section 2 of The Conjure Woman POE SANDY on the northeast corner of my vineyard in central north carolina and fronting on the lumberton plank road there stood a small frame house of the simplest construction it was built of pine lumber and contained but one room to which one window gave light and one door admission its weather-beaten sides revealed a virgin innocence of paint Against one end of the house, and occupying half its width, there stood a huge brick chimney.

The crumbling mortar had left large cracks between the bricks.

The bricks themselves had begun to scale off in large flakes, leaving the chimney sprinkled with unsightly blotches.

Oh, replied Annie, Uncle Julius says that ghosts never disturb religious worship, but that if Sandy's spirit should happen to stray into meeting by mistake, no doubt the preaching would do it good.

End of Poe Sandy Recording by James K.

White Chula Vista Section 3 of The Conjure Woman by Charles Waddell Chestnut.

Moz Jeems Nightmare.