Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-02-03

fer, ybote and in less than no time we WIS in M Orleans.
l has often heerd what kind har:ed people tia is in NJ
Orleans, but l had no ideer of it until tride 'em-no suner
had the bote tutched the wharf than Il hat duzzen feners
cum up to me in the kindest manner and offered thar sur
vices fur to talk mi ~baggidge and thar wus sevral feners a
standin roun with '' porter" rit on thar hats in big letturs,
when polly seed EN- she turned to me and SEE she, why
Mr.. Cake this must be a nifty Incorporate sitty, see how
menny kinds of "poter'' tina use down heer-thars the
"city porter the white porter the black porter and the
ya1ler porter and 1 don't kno how menny luther kind-o mi
god don't wunder thar is so menny murders and earthquakes
down here! wei while we wus standin thar surrounded by
thees fellers up stepped aman whut wus moar ginerous than
awl on em and he offered US a fine carridge and bosses to
ride up to the st. C~harles-wenI nevur seed the Teller befour.
but then I thot it war so kind in him, that it wood be i'm,
perlite TO refuse so me and polly got in to his fine carridge
and sure nuf he driv us strate to the st. Charles.
When we got thar, me and polly got out and thanked the
Teller fur his crate kindness and we toe him we'd do as
mulch fur him sum da, eff he evur happened up in the ma.
borhood Of ole gourd vine, and then we started to go into
the hotel; but he holered fur US to stop, he Wanted us to
pa fur over Observation-Disclosures yew'd better bleeve I WIS
stonished when I heerd that, for I thot the teller had rid US,
js out of his natral kindness-as thar wus a croud standin
round l sd nuthin, but planked up a doler.
Wei we found the st. Charles wus a whoppin big house
We waulked up stares and tina tuck us in the parler and
dern mi hide eft wusnt the finest room l evur seed. Thar
wus lookin glasses in it almost as big as the side of a meetin-
house, lined awl round the edges with gold and thar wus
butiful picters and the awlfredest incest loockin carpet yew
evur seed-it reilly locked like a pity to put yore foot on it.
In a flu minnits they shode us to a room wa up yonder and
we wus a hat hour waulkin up steps to git to it. Wei " hen
we got up thar we sot down awhile to rest and WIS taulkin
bout the fnery of the house when awl of a sudden I heerd
the gol derndest crash that eyur wus. Polly she turned rite
pale when she heerd it, seq l polly thars suthin out, yew set
rite still, till / go and see what it i.
1 run down stares but didn't "zt on as tho / thot emmy
tn. ng had broke luse or busted, fur in kase thar wus nuthing
moar the matter than youshal, tina wood a thot l wus devlish
green. When I got down thar 1 didn't see no perticlar
excitement, but I spide a croud Of fellers awl taulkin around
and sposin tina mite be taulkin bout it, l sided up to 'em;
but not a thunderin bit Good 1 beer, ceptin one Teller sed it
beet emmy opera he evur witnest-then the ideur struck me
that that wus what had kicked up the fuss l heerd-the
opera had fel down and broke, SO 1 slept up to the Teller
what stays in the orfs and seq / mistur did yore opera git
mulch hurt? seq he, loockin mitely sprized, what opera?
SEE ], wusnt that yore opera what fel down awhile ago and
maid awl that racket l heerd down here? no sur seq he that
wus the gong. l then axed him what wus a gong and he
tuck me round and shode it to me and shure as yew live
twus nuthin but a big round peece Of copper which a Teller
had beet with a drumstick. He larfed at me fur bein so
green and 1 felt nifty striped oyur it.
Wei bein satisfied bout the mattur, I started M stares to
tell polly bout it, but by the eternals 1 coodnt find the room,
so I commenced a hoiering fur polly, to see eff she woodnt
anser, but insted of her anserin ~evrybody stuck thar heds
out Of thar dores and commenced larfn at me bekos l wus lost
and thar l stood feein awloverish til a chamber womun
cum and shode me the Wa to the room.
1tole polly awl about it, and she WIS mitely relieved. Wei
we sot thar taulkin til bout s O'Clock spectin evry minnit fur
sum boldly to tel US tea was reddy, but nobody cum sol
corclewded to go and see bout it.
Wei when 1 got out in the passidge I seed a Teller and SEE
l stranger haint it neery time fur tea? why sez he my deer
fellur l tuck tea a nour ago-that sorter tuck me doun. l
went back to the room and toe polly of it and she locked
mitely vexed, so we had to shuck off and so to bed that mite
without emmy supper shure! Wei we went to sleep detur-
mined not to be cheeted of over breakfast and mex mornin
brite and erly we wus doun stares watin fur breckfas and
darnashun hungry we wus too.
Wei presently we herd that Internal gong and we seed
people goin in to a room whar tables wus settin and we
walked in too-we tuck over seets and a Teller axed us
whut we'd hav, we tole him and cuss his yaler picters eff it
wusnt a half over befour he cum back, wei we eat a harty
breckfas tho polly wus miteIy disguised with the imperlte-
ness Of a big whiskered Teller who sot down opposite to us
and tuck out a muse paper and commenced a reedin It rite
thar at the table.
AFTER breakfast me and polly went out in town to bye sum
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waited and waited fur dinner, but no dinner wus reddy, so
We conclewded tina eat dinner to lat for us, and l went and
pade mi bill at the orfs and me and polly went out in town
and bot sum crackers and cheese and then we started ovur
the river to sta awl mite at algeers so we'd be sumo enuG
fur the kars in mornin.
Wei erly in the mornin we got up and got on the kars.
Sune arter we had got started the conductor cum around
and axed me to pay mi fare again, vel put mi hand in mi
pocket to git out mi wallet, when 10 and behold it wus gone!
sum Teller stole it. Wei 1 didn't kno what to do, but 1 seed
a Teller settin in the kar that l knode, and 1 bon; ed It from
him. Wei l tuck mi sect and I felt monstreus like ~shaikspeer
Il jes sed to mielf
&c He hoo stole mi wallet, didn't steel trash by a darn'd site:
Twas mine and poHy's, and faint hisn nor nobody eIses
He robbed me Of that which won't enrich him much
But gives mi pockit the ro0an-at-is! !"
Wei it wusnt long afour we got to lafooch and 1 wus
mitely rejoiced and polly sed you woodnt ketch her on them
kars agin sure-we got on over critters and was sumo at
home.
Mr.. Eddytur l had a heep moar fur to rite yew, but 1 has
~trespassed 80 much on your pashence now, yew is almost fit
to cuss me. Well III bring up the uthers sumtime or nuther, |
polly sends her compliments along with mine to yew.
remain yourn til deth, JOHN E. CAKE.
P.S.-Poly toe me to Ak yew to tel Mistur Gerson that |
she seed his CALM the sitty and she sent her best luv to him
tole polly to ak yew to kiss him for her. J.E G.
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