Plantation Plunder

Long before my time, a Mississippi man took a notion to rob his plantation neighbors as night would catch them returning with their meager grocery.

The dusty road passed a graveyard.

The man with the notion dug a shallow trench in the midst of the graveyard, donned a sheet and laid waiting.

When people passed along the rascal would rise and declare, “Oh…I didn’t die right!”

Those experiencing that dropped everything and fled far fast.

The man with the notion would then collect the loot and disappear into the night.

He persisted effectively until a man, Mr. Gladney, decided to put a long handled hoe in his wagon.

When the Ghost pretender jumped up and said, “Oh…. I didn’t die right!”

Mr. Gladney applied the hoe handle and told him,

“Oh…. But you’re going to die right this time!”

That notion ended that night.

....Thank you Uncle James.