The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-10

'HE GOT ME To HUSrtN' THROUGH GEAvE-
YARDS AT MIDNIGHT"
brought luck, and since dat time ebcry
cu'd man has follered In his foot
steps.
'It has come TO my knowledge dat
Giveadam Jones sleeps wild a rabbits
foot under his pillar Mt night.
Dat Elder Penstock has carried one
In his coattall pocket for de last forty.
-four years.
Dat WaydOwn Behee wears one tied
10 his left leg TO keep de rheumaticks
away.
Dat Samuel shin believes he would
have been murdered by a ghost If he
hadn't produced his rabbits foot jest
in dc nick OF time.
"Dat Kurnel White jilted dc woman
he was gwine to marry last month
kase dc rabbits foot curled M little.
'Dat ledge Kabi6f keeps burglars
away from his cabin by hangin' a
foot or dc doah.
IL has heard all dis and heap mo-,
and de time has come TO tell you dat
you am maxim fools Of yourselves.
De man who kin show me dat dar' am
mo- luck IN n rabbits foot dan I'm a
raw tater or turnlp kin make 800
right away. In de first place de rabbit
is a fool animal He can't fight, he
can't roar. he cant crawl and he don't
know nun to run straight He Jest
goes foOlin' around on airth tin some
body knocks him out and eats him IN.
He's skeercd from dc day he IS bon to
de hour of his death. Sunthin or some
body Is allus artcr him, and he never
has any luck tall
-ln de second place, luck haint
comm to nobody through any fool
thing. You has got to git up mighty
airly In dc mawnln' and hunt all day
for luck. She'll come to you Jest as
quick n you are caryin' a head Of
cabbage under your arm as she will n
you have n rabbits foot tied 70 your
neck.
Mistah Hams ldea.
"MistAh Ham got de idea dat dar
was luck In a rabbits foot When and
whar did II bring him luck? 'Cordn'
20 all de accounts | have read OF him.
he had hard time of It in dis world.
and he didn't have much Of a funeral
purcession when he finally passed
away. How does II come, den. dat so
many of you are follerin' Mistah
Ham?
Oar was time u my life when
was fool believer I'm de rabbits foot
] was young, and Il was nm old niger
man dat told me about it. He got me
20 huntn' through graveyards at md
night In dc second quarter Of de moon
10 Kill a rabbit. Lawd love yc. was
skeered to death for six months Den
finally killed rabbit and got both
front paws. Den dat old niger man
told me ] was heeled for anything dat
come along aud | was fool nun to
believe II and bring down couse.
quences on my bead.
II tackled big Guild feller dat was
arter my gal, and he wolloped me so
dat didn't git out OF dc house for two
weeks.
II craved for pork and got arter a
hawg belongin' 10 n white man. 7 had
ootn uose rect VIA me, ana Ofler GOT
dat pork and got away wild II, but dar
was slip up. Dat white man got me
instead. and went to jail for a month
II was courtin' powerful fine culrd
gal. Dem rabbits feet orter brought
me luck. Did dey? Not much. When
] axed dat gal for her heart and hand
she throwed me down for a cross eyed
niger dat didn't know possum from
a persimmon.
II worked till had $50 IN my pock-
et and den | started out to buy
mewl. Dem rabbits feet was wild me
J found mewl and planked down de
money and led him home, Jest as
got home | turned around and dis
kibersd dat had been leadln' cold