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Excerpt from Talks
There was a woman came in the store one day as black as the ace of Spades a colored woman - and she wanted a pair of flesh-colored stockings. I showed her a black pair, and she pulled a stiletto out of her hair and was going to stab me. I said, Madam, you asked for flesh-colored stockings; this is the nearest match we have. But she wanted white people's flesh colored stockings. I sold her a pair; they must have beenas becoming as a stick of licorice in a plate of ice-cream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
