Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-21

HE GOT ME TO HUETM THROUGH GRAVE | YARDS AT MIDNIGHT"
 brought luck, and since dat time ebery culrd man has follered in his foot steps.
 Tt has come to my knowledge dat Giveadam Jones sleeps wid rabbits foot under his pillar at night.
 Dat Elder Penstock has carried one in his coattail pocket for de last forty four years. F
 Dat Waydown Bebee wears one tied to his left leg to keep de rheumaticks away.
 Dat Samuel Shin believes he would have been murdered by ghost if he hadn't produced his rabbits foot jest in de nick of time.
 "Dat Kurnel White tilted de woman he was gwine to marry last month kase de rabbits foot curled up a little Dat Jedge Kabiff keeps burglars away from hise cabin by hangin a foot on de sdoahss
 T has heard all dis and a heap mo and de time has come to tell you dai you am maxim fools of yourselves De man who kin show me dat dar' am mo luck in rabbits foot dan in a raw tater or turnip kin make $1OO right away. In de first place, de rabbit is fool animal. He can't fight, he can't roar. he can't crawl, and he don't know huff to run straight He jest goes foolin' around on airth till some body knocks him out and eats him up. He's skeered from de day he is bon to de hour of liis death. Sunthin or some body Is allus arter him, and he never has any luck tall.
 'sIn de second place, luck hain't comin' to nobody through any fool thing. You has got to git up mighty airly in de mawnin' and hunt all day for luck. She'll come to you jest as quick if you are carryin' head of cabbage under your arm as she will if you have rabbits foot tied to youI neck.
 Mistah Hams Idea.
 ''Mistah Ham got de idea dat daf was luck in rabbits foot. When and wbar did it bring him luck? 'Cordin' 10 all de accounts have read of him, he had hard time of 1t in dis world. and he didn't have much of funeral purcession when he finally passed away. How does 1t come, den, dat SC many of you are follerin' Mistah Ham?
 ''Dar was a time in my life when was fool believer in de rabbits foot I was young, and it was an old niggei man dat told me about 1t. He got me to huntin' through graveyards at mid night in de second quarter of de moon to kill a rabbit. Lawd love ye, I was skeered to death for six months. Den I finally killed a rabbit and got both front paws. Den dat old nigger man told me I was heeled for anything dat come along, and I was fool 'nuff to believe 1t and bring down conse. quences on my head.
 T tackled big cull'd feiler dat was arter my gal, and he wolloped me so dat didn't git out of de house for two weeks.
 T craved for pork and got arter a hawg belongin' to white man. I had both dose feet wid me, and orter got dat pork and got away wid it, but dar was slip up. Dat white man got me instead, and went to jail for month.
 q was courtin' powerful fine cull'd gal Dem rabbits feet orter brought me luck. Did dey? Not much. When I axed dat gal for her heart and hand she throwed me down for a cross eyed nigger dat didn't know a possum from a persimmon.
 'I worked till had S30 in my pock- ct, and den I started out to buy a mewl. Dem rabbits feet was wid me. l found a mewl and planked down de money and led him home. Jest as l got home I turned around and dis. kibered daf I had been leadin s coli sorpse for de last half mile. lat mewl had had a fit and expired.
 ''0n an occashun I hankered arter some green con and eot out in de night to visit field. I fingered dat dem two feet was good for fo' dozen ears But what happenedf Why, de white man was on de watch and filled me so full of bird shot dat I couldn't jump over tow string for dc next h1onfk