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" Now, yan's my field o' corn. I gather the corn, and shuck hit and grind hit my own self, and the woman she bakes us a pone o' bread to eat — and I don't pay no tax, do I? Then why can't I make some o' my corn into pure whiskey to drink, without payin'... "
The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association - Page 237
by United States Brewers' Association - 1914
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Our Southern Highlanders

Horace Kephart - 1913 - 472 pages
...expense, or pay express rates on pizened liquor — and we are too durned poor to do ary one or t'other. "Now, yan's my field o' corn. I gather the corn, and...tell you, 'tain't fair, this way the Government does ! But, when all's said and done, the main reason for this ' moonshining,' as you-uns calls it, is bad...
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Our Southern Highlanders

Horace Kephart - 1913 - 472 pages
...expense, or pay express rates on pizened liquor — and we are too durned poor to do ary one or t'other. " Now, yan's my field o' corn. I gather the corn, and...whiskey to drink, without payin' tax? I tell you, 'tain' t fair, this way the Government does ! But, when all's said and done, the main reason for this...
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Year Book

United States Brewers' Association - 1914 - 372 pages
...did he get a map which gave hjm a clear idea of the lay of the land. Had he been going to Teneriffc or Timbuctu he could have found plenty of information...tell you, 'tain't fair, this way the Government does !" the spot, how he obtains his materials, what he does with them when he gets them, with what precautions...
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The Land of Saddle-bags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia

James Watt Raine - 1924 - 328 pages
...medicines we-uns has is yerbs, which customarily ain't no good 'thout a leetle grain o' whiskey. . . . Now, yan's my field o' corn. I gather the corn and...my corn into pure whiskey to drink, without payin' taxt I tell you, 'tain't fair, this way the Government does ! But, when all's said and done, the main...
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Our Southern Highlanders

Horace Kephart - 1913 - 468 pages
...expense, or pay express rates on pizened liquor — and we are too durned poor to do ary one or t'other. "Now, yan's my field o' corn. I gather the corn, and...tell you, 'taint fair, this way the Government does! But, when all's said and done, the main reason for this ' moonshining,' as you-uns calls it, is bad...
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