The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-02

HE GOT ME TO HtNrIH THROUGH GRAVE
YARDS AT MIDNIGHT
brought luck. and since dat time cherry
Guild mau has follered in his foot
steps.
1T has come TO my knowledge dat
Giveadam Jones sleeps wild rabbits
foot under his pillar al night
Dat Elder Pcnstock has carried one
in his coattail pocket for de last forty
four years
Dat Waydown Bebee wears one tied
away.
Dat Samuel Shin believes he would
have been murdered by a ghost if he
hadn't produced his rabbits foot Jest
in de nick Of time.
Dat KIrncl White Tilted de woman
he was swine to marry last month
kase de rabbits foot curled up a little
Dat Jeige Kabiff keeps burglars
away from his cabin by hangin'
foot or de doah.
81 has heard all dis and heap mo,
and de time has come to tell you dat
you ain maxim fools of yourselves
De man who kin show me dat dar' am
mo- luck in 4 rabbits foot dan In
raw later or turnip kin make 800
right away. In de first place. de rabbit
is fool animal. He can't fight, he
can't roar. he cant crawl. and he don't
know 'nutf to run straight He Jest
goes foolin' around on airth till some
hpIx- l-,Anty., II.
He's skeered from de day he is bon to
de hour Of his death. Sunthin or some
body is allus arter him. and he never
has any luck tall
'ln de second place, luck hain't
comm 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' a head Of
cabbage under your arm as she will II
you have Il rabbits foot tied to your
neck
Mstah Hams Idea.
'Mlstah Ham got de idea dat dar
was luck in rabbits foot. When and
whar did it bring him luck? 'Cordin
to 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 so
many of you are follerin' Mistah
Ham?
Oar was time in my life when
was fool believer in de rabbits foot
I was young, and it was an old niger
man dat told me about it, He got me
10 huntin' through grayeyards at md
night in de second quarter Of de moon
TO kill "A rabbit. Lawd love We, | 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, and | was fool huff to
believe it and bring down conse-
Quences on my head.
II tackled big Guild Teller dat was
arter my gal. and he wolloped me so
dat didn't git out of de house for two
! weeks.
81 craved for pork and got AFTER
hawg belOngn' to a white man. | had
both dose feet wild me. and | orter got
dat pork and got away wild It. but dar
was slip up Dat white man got me
instead, and | went to Jail fora month
II was courtin' powerful fine culld
I gal. Dem rabbits feet orter brought
me luck. Did dcy? Not much. When
| axed dat gal for her heart and hand
she throwed me down for a cross eyed
niger dat didn't know a possum from
a persimmOn.
81 worked till had $50 in my peck.
ct and den ! started ont to buy a
mewl Dem rabbits feet was wild me
| found mnwl ana Banked down de
money and led him home Jest as
got home turned around and dis.
kibered dat had been eadin' a cold