The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-15
NOT SUPERSTITIoUS.
The Reverend Mir. Mulki,,le Shows that He Cannot be Frightened

He Cannot be Frightened
 Ii un erstans." said old Ike to young Mulki;tle. <" dat yer folders gwine little ways ou,en town ter preach ter-night. an wants yer ter make yer Engagements ter go wid him. Keep yer mouf shet, doan say word, fur he's gwineter see ghost e he comes long back. l, won't be no sho 'nutf ghost. honey. but one what SC ewineter rig up fur de 'casicn. Yer know ne got inter mighty argymen, wid me bout ghosts luther night, an mark my words honey. when nan says dat de nigeers us,er tell him bout ghosts an da, |; made pression on him eben alr- ter he S.ss done growed up, dat mans CT feerd q ghosts. iis' e sho's yer live. an ken be made ter flip his coat tails through de Il liS de same AS de nigger what amt got nun sense ter tote chicken un CT hls arm, an aint foun' dat sortet nigger yit. Doan yer git skeerd, honey, fur I'll take yer home ease'n dc boss runs way an leabs yer.
 Do you thlak my pa would run from anything Uncle Ike =
 lis like tells yer. See dem coat tails layin' back like rabbits ycars. Yer go on wld him now. an watch out e yer comes back.
 Mir. Mulk.uic had been requested ,o preach q, small church situated near town. and had decided to allow the boy to accompany him. As they walked along the ypngs;er pondered over what old Ike had told hum, and wondered if his father would really run. He pictured to himself the spectacle of his fleeing paren, and laughed outrigh,.
 What amuses you so, my son =
 "No.hin'; was Us laughin.
 But ~ha, are you laughing abou, :"
 Something that old Uneie Ike said"
 Il want to caution you agains, that old mlu. don't want you To believe any of his s:oFles He IS an old crank"
 ID AtN si VI dHh AauSC tI kA4C grlnd-stone when you sharpened the ha,che; :"
 Oh. no
 Well, ~ha,s crank Is he one cause he's rocked:
 Yet have come very nearly hitting il, for he's 4 crank because hl, mind IS crooked
 After the sermon. the reverend gentle man and his son started immediately for home The fall moon seemed to surge in billowy sea of clouds. throwing tangled beams among the trees of the wood through which they walked along.
 Ia, was there ever a ghos, =
 Certainly not. my son"
 The bible says there IS -
 There may have been at one ,lue, my son, bu, there are none now"
 Wha, went with 'em =
 oh. don't know"
 Then how do you know ,he.- am, none
 Hush
 They walked along in silence Mr Mulki,;le meil,a;ed on the subjec, winch seemed to have filled the mind ef his son, and decided to write sermon en- bodying his idea of ghosts and what he knex aboe, ncfro supers,,ions. The narros s;Fp of woods. stretching along in the Elshty moor.ight. seemed ln itself a stretch of embodied loneliness. The path ran along fence, bordering an old cem- etcry where slep, many an old pioneer. With the shifting light the iall. ghos,ly stones seemed to come and go, and the shrill oyof anigh, bird flying over ,he old-time field of death. did no, add to the cheerfuiness of the scene. Over inc path. just n front of the father and boy. hung a stubbed. bending tree, and as the pede,- trans came up, tall white figure, A, least ten feet in the air suddenly appeared before them. Mir. Mulkiitie uttered an exclamation of sudden fright leaped over los and ran like deer. The boy also frightened. c.ied out in alarm when voice from the tree said
 Doan gi, skeered. honey. fur de ole man IS ~id yer. Did'n tel yer da, yer folders coa, tails would stretch out !: Come hcah now quick, an les take dis nearde- shoo, home. Come on, an when yer fodder says anything, les' say dat yer wan, wid him. Do whut tells yer, an ebey,hing sill come right The old