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Tiger Blood. Making moonshine is easy, and the profits are large. Racketeers copy the big distillers' methods. The pale, unaged liquid that results is "white light-nin'," "white mule," "Splo," or "tiger blood." Many a Southern countryman would rather drink it than store whisky. One lead-bellied Georgia farmer told a Treasury agent: "I bought legal once. Couldn't stand the stuff. Threw it to the hogs 'n they all died...
...heavy, whatcha got in 'em?" I curtly asked. The little guy looked around startled and said, "Books, why?" "You can't hand me that stuff," I bluffed. "They are books; I'm returning to teach in the University," he explained. Mad through by now, I retorted, "Feels like 'splo' (liquor) to me." Instead of getting hot under the collar the good little guy asked, "Do you work here all the time?" "No," I answered, "I'm a Sophomore in Harvard...
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