| Summary: | boo n Christmas or somethin' like that,you know. JW. Talking about Christmas, was _Santa Claus_ ever a frightening thing to children here? S. No. JW. What about _the Boo-baggers_,by the way? Did you hear.hear tell of these characters? S. No,I didn't. JW. What about _the Boo-man?_ Do they have e'er _a Boo-man_ round Beaumont? H.P. There's ne'er a _Boo-man_ here,is there? S. No. JW. What do you have the,Harold,apart from _the Black Man?_ HP. Well I had _Boo-baggers_ [ ] in my family, you know, my Mother knew all about them! JW. Yeah. HP. She was tellin' you today. But there were no Boo-beggers [ ] in your family! (S. Sure.) Yes J. WIDDOSON [check] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used Phonetic transcriptions appear throughout quote; they are not transcribed here becuase the database cannot reproduce all symbols.
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