This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES The great god Mumbo Jumbo, Big chief, or "Bwana Tumbo" In Africa, evolved, --no matter when, -- Some anthropoidal creatures Alike in form and features, Yet some of them were Monkeys, some were Men. So all the lake and wood gods, Both naughty gods and good gods And fetishes of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES The great god Mumbo Jumbo, Big chief, or "Bwana Tumbo" In Africa, evolved, --no matter when, -- Some anthropoidal creatures Alike in form and features, Yet some of them were Monkeys, some were Men. So all the lake and wood gods, Both naughty gods and good gods And fetishes of high and low degree, Protested, "Mighty Brother, We can't tell which from t'other!" But Mumbo Jumbo chuckled, "Wait and see!" He next, with shrewd intentions, Produced some quaint inventions And scattered them about the hills and dales-- Contraptions lithe and sightly That dictionaries brightly Describe as "caudal processes," or "tails." The Creatures, who, as stated, Had lately been created, Adopted lives on wholly different planes. With High Ambition fired, One half of them Aspired; They scorned those foolish Tails and used their Brains. They spent their time in fighting, In art, and picture-writing, In bungling things and trying them again, In liking and in loathing, In making love and clothing, In doing all they could, --so thes DEGREES were Men. The other half were sportive; With enterprise abortive, They pilfered nuts and ran away and hid; They gamboled, frisked, and chattered Of Things that Hardly Mattered, And idly mocked what other people did. Now, one of these, espying A Tail, --the edifying Device of Mumbo Jumbo, --on a thorn, Purloined it, wagged it, switched it, And ultimately hitched it Behind himself--where tails are being worn. Then all his futile nation In eager imitation With tails bedecked their persons, great and small. 'Twas lots of fun to flop them; But when they tried to drop them, They found they couldn't get them off at all! Those tails, assumed so lightly, Are fastened on more tightly Than hatchet-heads are fitted onto helves;...
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