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ON "GHOSTS WHAT AINT
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Just Because He Happened to Be a
Hoodo One Time We Want to Lay
Many Thing at His Feet
The ghost stories that have re
cently been published by a great many
papers of the country have set
tongues a-wagging und have brought
out a number of local stories. But
just at the opportune time here comes
a most interesting article appearing
in the American Magazine telling
about "the ghosts what ain't." It
was written by Ellis Parker Butler
and follows:
I wrote, a story once about a little
black boy whose name was Mose,
and one Hallowe'en he had ijst about
the awfulest time any little black
boy ever had in this wurld. There
was a paru' at the cabin ana nis
mammy sen. him to get a pumpkin,
to make a jack-o'-lante-n. It was
a mighty dark night and the little
black boy had to go past the grave
yard and through the wood and down
the hollow, and whan he reached the
pumpkin patch he was scared almost
whi.e. He reached down to grab a
pumpkin, and a great big headless
ghost shouted at him to drop it
that it was his head. L.ttle black
Mose was so scared the ghost was
sorry for him and gave nim some
sound, comforting advice:-
"Uont you ever be afraid of
ghosts," the ghost told him, "because
ihere ain t no ghosts.
So little black Mose started home
and he picked up a stick.
"Lego that; that s my leg', an
awful ghost voice said, and then that
ghost told little black Mose the same
th n?:
"Don't you ever be scared of
ghosts," that ghost said; "there ain't
no ghosts.'" .
And presently, when he was going
past the graveyard, he met all the
ghosts in the worluV holding a con
vention. There were millions of them,
and every one told little, black Mose
the same thing: ,
"Dey ain't no ghosts!"
When little black Mose got back
to the cabin he was so scared he was
blue-white, and everybody at the
party told him he was a foolish little
black Mose to be scared of ghosts,
because, they tlod him:
"Dey ain't no ghosts!"
Little black Mose allowed they
were right, but when it came time
to go to bed he just hung around and
hung around and didn't want to go
up there in the dark.
"Git erlong wid vo!" his mammy
said. "What yo skeercd ob when dey
ain't no ghosts?"
"1'ain t skeered ob de phosts what
am," little black Mose allowed.
"Den what am yo skeered ob?"
his mammy asked.
"Nfrtn'," said little Ma vie Mos?;
"but I jus' feel kinder er.easy about
de ghosts what ain't."
Just like white folks! Just like
whita folks! We don't have cny reil
ghosts to be afraid of. and so we
spend half o3 our time inventing
imaginary spooks.
1 am as bad as any of you. Ac
cording to my latest census I have
on my staff just about five hundred
and sixty-four ghosts what ain't that
( hRve made for myself out of noth
nsr. That -is enouirh fbr one man,
and a few over. Seventy-eijfht ghosts
what ain't are enough to handicap
anyone. Three or four are enough to
maje an ordinary man miserable and
any more than that are a nuisance.
Jonah was a good example of a
man with a ghost what ain't; I mean
the Jonah who had to take- a trip
in a wnaie, wnetner he could get a
lower berth or had to take Upper
len and make the besr of it.
By "ghosts what am? ' I mean the
hesitations and fears we piu on our
selves which prevent us from get
ting the best out of life and out of
ourselves. They are the imaginary
whiffenpoofs that make us side-step
and hesitate and back away, just as
Jonah tried to get out of that trip
to Nineveh. ,
I don't think Jonah has had a fair
deal. We call everybody with bad
luck a Jonah, and everybody who
brings bad luck a Jonah, and it isn't
fair. Noah built the ark and, after
the flood, got thoroughly ani com
pletely iritoxlcated, but we don't call
every drunk a Noah. And then there
was Solomon. Solomon built thj tem
ple and had one thousand wives, but
we don't call eveiy bigamist a Solo
mon. But because poor Jonah happened
to.be a hoodoo once in his life we
can't forget it. As soon as 1 have
tlme I am going to start a society
to be called the Society for Givinir
Jonah a Fair Deal.
Now the real facts about Jonah
are as follows: Jonah was in the
prophet business, nd his job was to
fo to wicked municipalities and howl
calamity unless they reformed and
benaved better. Une day word came
to Jonah to go to Nineveh and crv
against it because its wickedness
arose to heaven. Nineveh was actually-
worse man Greenwich iilatre pre
tends to be. By all accounts it was
a tough joint and meded a reform
adm n-stration, and Jonah seemed to
be the right man to go there and
start the campaign.
when he received his orders Jonah
should have put on his best clothes
and mounted to the hurricane deck
of a camel and loped to Nineveh
in a hurry. Instead of doing that.
he began to conjure up ghosts what
ain't to frighten himself and make
him afraid of the job.
"Now, what do I know about the
camel?" he probably said to himself.
1 may get a camel I never saw be
fore a perfect stranger of a camel
ind it may slew its head Rround
and bite a chunk out of my thiirh and
give me Hood posopjig. Or ic may
shy at a jack-rabbit and throw me
oft' and break my femur and tibia. Or
it may "stumble into a gopher hole
and roll over on top of me and dis
locate one ot my sp.nai vertebra,
and then I would be in a nice fix,
wouldn 1 1, with no chuopractics near-
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The chances were tha- when Jonah
went to hire a camel he would find
all the cameb gone from the livery
stable and have to ride a small tan
colored donkev; but a r.ian with the
ghost what ain't habit does not look
or. the hopeful side of things.
"Pshaw!" Jonah doubiless said; "I
would never get to N'neveh anyway.
Just look how a camel rolls and tosses
its passengers. I'd be seasick be
fore I went a mile. And even if I got
t ) Nineveh I bet the first man I spoke
to would hit me on the head with a
bter bottle."
In that way Jonah let his ghosts
what ain't loom bigger and bigger
unci! he was afraid to tfckle the job,
and he side-stepped to Joppa and got
on a ship that was gong to Tarshish
which was a miserable place to go
to, any way you look at it and, as I
understand it, reading between the
lines, Jonah was soon the seasickest
man that ever turned pea-green
around the gills. He was so seasick
that he went down into the innermost
part of the ship and entered a coma
tose condition and remained dead to
the world until the sailors came down
and poked him up. He was so sick
he did not care what happened, and
when the sailors suggested that he
was a foreigner and a hoodoo and'
the cause of the storm he said:
"All right; take me up and throw
me overboard."
A man as seasick as Jonah would
say that. So they took him up on
deck and swung him three times and
sang out "Heave ho!" and chucked
him overboard, and a whale swal
lowed him.
Jonah was in the steerage of that
whu'e three days and three nights,
and according to an accounts the E
Jeck of a whale is a miserable place
to be. There are almost no accom
modations whatever no . electric
linhts, no hot or cold water, no bath
tub, not even a boy selling salted
peanuts and magazines.
Very few of us have ever been in
side of a live whale, even for a few
minutes, and when it was moored at
the dock, but I am inclined tojwlieve
it is like bein wranped in a large
pi e of trips on a dark mid-summer
nirht in a steam laundry. When at
si a it is worse. The whale, while
it ss eccentric than the, flying fish and
ihe porpoise, is a rouifh navigator,
occasionally making three-mile nose
Jives and wallowing like a pig in a
iTcek. For three days and three nights
lonah stood all this, with nothing
to read and no one to talk to, and
:io meals served in his room or out
t it. He could not even sit with his
:et on the window sill and watch
tlie people go-by. All he could do
was to lie there and hope the whale
lid not get thirsty enough to drink
ght barrels of ocean and drown him,
.km! wonder when the gastric juices
were jcoinr to beg:n to dissolve him.
And then what happened? After
hree days and nights of it the whale
"vomited Jonah ou upon the dry
rnd." I think being vomited by a
fish is about as near the lowjat limit
of ignominy us a man can get; it is
worse, than being bit by a ribbit.
And the end of it was that Jonah
"::rose, and went up to Nineveh, ac
cording to the word of Jehovah," just
as he had been told to go in the first
place. Because Jonah allowed a ghost
what ain't to scare him he wasted
three days and nights, was seasick,
chucked overboard, whaled and vom-
l ed, lost the fare from Joppa to
Tarshish, and could not even sell the
motion picture right of the episode
or collect damages from, the whale.
I wish, when yvou hav? finish read
ing the books you feel you simnly
must read if you are going to be able
to talk your share at the Fireside
Club, you would take time some day
o read ins Book of Jonah. It is j
one of the shortest books in the Bible, j
ar.d full of nature study about whales
and gourd vines and worms. It has I
adventure by sea and by land, and i
a wicked city and a k:ng in Sack-1
cloth, and a whole lot of things. But I
the moral in it is that Jonah side-1
stopped a job because he let a ghost1
what ain't scare him; and then, wheni
he did do the job. it was too late, i
and Jehovah went back on Jonah and
even created a worm to bite Jonah's i
gourd vine on the ankle and kill it.
The world is full of Jonahs. . No
man has a hoodoo thrust upon him !
or is a hoodoo by nature; but plenty;
of us create ghosts what ain't for
ourselves and let them scare us out
of happiness and success.
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