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Show TidBits From Here,There and Yonder' HAS BECOME TIRED OF QH03T8. Dweller In Malay Peninsula Arises with Protest. Writes a resident of Penang, In the Malay peninsula: "I dure contend that I know n certain tree lu Penang which has more devils In It for Its size than any other tree yon, can And either In'or our of Malayn. This tree was In my compound nnd tho native servants were so frightened of It that they wouldn't sleep In the house. My boy Paklrl one night pointed out twenty-six distinct devils to me and said that they were bad devils, for they had given Paklrl the stomach acho and made his legs wabbly nnd It was 'better master glvo whisky.' I quite believed that spirits, and very evil ones, too, had got Into Paklrl's head, but I fancy they were mado In Gor-many Gor-many nnd only cost a couplo of dollars dol-lars a dozen quarts, "Still that tree was a fruitful source of nnnoyanco, for It used to drown folk on the beach and tho servnnts wouldn't pass under It at night. Anything Any-thing dead that happened to bo floating float-ing by appeared to want to come ashore Just there and roost in that particular tree and the result was that I was not particularly sorry" to move. Neither was Paklrl, but he Is still affected af-fected by spirits at times. I'm a bit sick of ghosts mysolf. "I onco wroto an account of some nice, respectable Malayan ghosts and showed It to a friend. Ho sent It to the Asiatic society; they published It; Andrew Lang read It; Androw Lang wroto a book on It nnd referred to mo In n footnote; people read tho book and now I am deluged with letters asking If those ghosts are real ghosts. Moral: Beware of ghosts they aro not healthy." |