Thibodaux minerva., 1855-03-17
Letter from John e. Cake.
GouRD visE KErREEr, Choosdy mornin,
Martch 9th ateen hunderd & S.

Martch Bob quin yew haint gwine fur to ketc
him nj tbbydo consequently the owny avynew fur m
etturs to reetch yew VIII be then shut up cloased.
Mr. Eddytur. tells yew whut se had terrible time sins
rtoyew beforeyes, yew woodn beeve it, but tells yeV
that up to ysterdy, haint wurked nun fur week. Ps
had OF the tarnaest povoknes bes that emmy pore
sinnur evur had-it KEEP sweln loockin red go
80 skeerd sent mi boy Jake whizzn arter the doctur
Wei the docur he quick as he Good git his crittel
sadded-drecky he in seed it, he put kinder
ssicky loock he Cake by devils yew hadn't sont ur
me zactly when you did, God owny whut wood hap
pend fur let tel yew yore friend zishun that
is got whut caus in the deceased languages, D0dnicd
cuticula in fu minnits moar thar wood hev bin an
erupto t0u 6ilou-ths is whut you gifts fur drinkin 80
mutch of the crater Thems the very wurds he sed,
pzen me- ef understood emmy Of ceptin the lass wun
that's node by evryboddy whut vzzs Bob quins
When the doc got thru taukn his njun he went to his
saddebags tuck out his anst he Cake hole loe eer
fur this sweln must be cut open When he sed that you
dpend pom it felt kinder orfulish, but howsumevur
haut it best to grin bar so he socked the ansit
into it jest yelped than bar dog, but the doc
his pcters he like to kilt hisse larn sed he
hadn't cut zig saceU fur thees twenty yeers. Wei the
doctur he put up his ans and sed out of danger.
When he sed that mi wife oly fairly mpt fur joy, fur the
pore had tuck up the eur that had ketched the
vacksinasun when in bbydo last weak. Arter the
thing awl ovur mi tide up, sez doc whut
maiks them biles feer Wei he, Cake, doan
zacky no, but spose ha is redytay, yew We is
aw of ole muher erh shees got awl ovur her
face. Then to him. how does she git rid em? Why
he she doant git rid em but lets have its
own wa-why Cake didn't you nevur heer Of the rupshuns
Of volkanose Why tina is nuhin than the Dustin Of
big bes on the erhs face; wei sez T. whut's becum Of
&c ,,o ho
tro her in 6uin fevur the profits sa tina viii bring
her to eend sum da
Mr. Eddytur yew vii pur,eeve frum the da Of the mun
whut rt at the top Of mi ettur that longer the
condshun wus in when rit yew bfore-hat is to
hay dun received mi amnack Gas yew halun people wood
say pur quiln. But whus musn bout the boock
is it fur nuthin Now, Mr.. Eddytur, no yew woant
bleeve it but its fac fur nutin if yew had hev
bin down heer seed whut congregation Of eers thar
at Bob quiln's grossly, woodnt dout it minnt
Yes thar stood ole qun jest shein em out TO the eers
without chargfh darnd red axed quilin how he coed
stand them cks he sed he didn't Iuse nuin by it, bcause
them drug felers (FRrzEIL GArsEs) up thar at bbydo
sent 'em doun him fur rerbushun amung the people,
Now go darn eff that ant nifty clever them men, tina
satiny be good who feel much dsineresd
fur peoples heh eff SPARED I'm gwne to start pre-.
of nu hat fur catch graitfu hart in this rejun vii
beet gnerous responce to the chune of cents peece
But like to forgot to tel yew bout Of the good quays
Of the boock tha give Wei is MANNED the "Peepes
Almynack published by Louden Co., distributed by them
tibbydo feers red b John Cake evryboddy else that's
bin Bod quns grossly within the last three days
On the back Of the boock graft big Ege holding family
meddysns in his MOUTH I'm dernd ef that nt the st
time seed meddysin put into Egles mouth-wun
der e the ole bird didn't kinder drop his hers the ust dose
he tuck? shode the picter to polly tho the ole
wood split hur sides arn she pleez the living gods
Mr. Cake its the fust time seed Egle rubbed with
bill for medysin; but its march hars accountin fur
bills. Well turned the eef choke ef thar wasn't
the pcter Of rite naked man. hoo had bin struck by tenin
rods for thar tina aw stckn in him and aw sorts OF
wild annymas fum crawfsh up lion, wus layn round
to keep him frm puin out Of him rite the top Of
his he'd is big and awl throo the boock is conjecures
bout the sceAer reely felt sorry to the condishun Of
the pore Inext turned paige End Of the wurk
and b Hickey as shure as you living thar
prescripshun for curing hams!!!
Thunderashun whu wont this ofinvenshuns diskver
next E and polly had got that boock Jest week suner
Good have bin the Of saving very badly diseased
ham, it got full Of shippers and no dout ef we had oered
the dreckshun Of the boock that wood hev got we
OF EN- Dy THIS me but It's jest ike over cussed ck we
nevur heer of ennythng til it's t On the uther paige
speeks Of the aspects Of planets and uther mscelanynow
sware wood like behold the aspect of miscellany but
spose requires pair of frseein speckckees teller
skope see and hant got such things in theese
parts. It goas to tell about evry monh-nou
smash mi beever ef woodnt like to no whar aw them
moons from-tha must hav patent manufac-
tory sumwhar in them upper rejnns. sure!
foroof tn nuaty of hook
it reeds aw about the wether and tells the changes the
sam as eff the fer what rt the boock had bin in them
upper reuns and air rdnged the whole thing bforehand
and what's tells how to maik rubeb pies The boock
treats of graft menny inresng pnts and closes with
poeck dissertashun On the back Of the boock
under the he'd Of extra and yaer paper printed
contrbushun the boock from the pen Of the gentlemen
hoo Civ the boock awa which tha out and acknoedge
the corn and sa tha sell die suswe that's nifty homes in
them
Mr. Eddytur feas pertcler rtch about becaus Bob
quilln Civ me Of them books and il I'm SPARED, I'm
gwne keep for mi dauer mandy jain to reed when
she becums womun which aint very fur OFF
Wei luther da, the ideur tuck wus cummin from
wurk that I'd 60 tbbydo polly waunted sum shugar
waunted git plug Of tobacker and heer what wus
gwne the rounds So sadded up ole skew baw and went
to tibbydo. When got thar hitched mi nag and went
into felers store and thar spde feler reedn the m
nervy and hole croud standing round arn thaut it
gnal pitch in waulks listen too spectn to heer
suthn raal important bout the suthn else. Nou
whut do yew think was. Why shures faun of log it
the saim etur and pome whut writ yew. Wei thar
stood feeln streaked Jenny Jones did, when the
respirashun washed the veneshun red properly
speekin the ueshu blinds off her face he got
troo he red naim at the eend Then ha
taukn bout it, One fer sed dernd poor another sed
John Cake ought to rite and die, third
that under the circumstances he shoodn hesitate to
pound e fourth expressed intenshun to batter
Cake and dout from the I've imposed the giner
osity your columns and from the nsinuashuns in yore
last paper bout wood that yew mi
deer frend consider me sponge Cake.
Dsverin that I'm bore to yew and yore reeders begs
eeve like the ghost Of the royal Dame Farwel ole
hoss I'm gwine to peer before yew moar."
Yourn til deh, JOIN CAKE
INTERESTING DEcIsIoN.-A decision of interest
to merchants has been made in the United States
District Court of New York. 1t has been decreed
that wool, sponge, or any cargo which during
voyage across the ocean may from the absorption
of moisture become heavier than at the time Of