Roy Bookbinder
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He said, somebody comes for your pocketbook, you know where your knife is.
You go to sleep with your hand on your knife.
And he goes to sleep.
Next morning, about 5.30 in the morning, Reverend Davis was screaming, good God, the mighty Lord have mercy.
That could mean anything.
I said, Reverend Davis, what's the matter?
I mean, I was in dreamland, get woken up like that.
I mean, he was in his 70s, the old blind man, and he was hysterical.
I said, what's the matter?
He says, they done got my pocketbook.
I said, oh, Lord have mercy.
And we're crawling around the room, and he's screaming, who got his pocketbook?
How'd somebody get in this room?
He knew that door wasn't good.
And didn't you hear nobody?
My heart was beating a mile a minute.
I'm searching all over this room.
Finally, I found his pocketbook under the bed.
I says, Reverend Davis?
He says, Roy?