| Summary: | boo n Boo-man was threatened, well okay, I'll stop, like that! But you didn't want to admit, sort of, that you were scared of the Boo-man: "Oh, I was just goin' to stop anyway!". Well, he's [a] pretty fictitious character. He can adapt himself to pretty well anything. If you look outside, if a knock comes on the door, it could be the Boo-man, you know, or your mother might go in an' knock on the table: "There's the Boo-man!" [ ] you know, "Oh! Knockin' on the wall outside!" [ ]. I can remember this bein' used. If you see a. a light goin' across the lane or something: "Oh! It's the Boo-man goin' across there! He's goin' across to the other house now! He'll be down here next!" [ ] [urgent, muted tone, with less full-voiced quality than normal speech]. Things like this. The Boo-man.was used to get people to bed or.if you were sort o' being unruly or stubborn, people used to frighten you like.like that. If you.people wanted Yes P.301 not used. (cont'd on card (c) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used This is the reverse of B_4910. It is the second in a four-card series, from B_4909 to B_4912. Card says "cont'd on card (c)", but there are only cards A, B, D, and E in this series. Database cannot reproduce phonetic transcriptions that appear in quote.
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