Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-01-20
Letter from John E.. Cake.
GoURD VINE RETREET,

Sunday mite, ies arter a harty supper.
MlsTUK IONA WHITE-Eddyt~r oftAe Ntnerty:
Now heer | is, les set down fur to write to yew
acin-but eff | had insulted mi own feelins on the
subjick, I'd a bin in bed under the kiyer two NOR
tai ours ago, and snorin ava like awl jerewsalem;
for when a feller's bin a wurkin in the swamp all
the endurin long da, and mite Gums he feels Ike
stackin his bones and "drawin the dFaipry OF his
mite shirt around him to lay down to plezzent
drcems.''
/ had dun conc!ewded not to rite to yew emmy
moar untelI tuck mi ralerode excurshum, but L
heerd a tellur sa the luther da, vew was gwlne TO
sci out yoar papur and press, and leave tibbydo-.
now eff this ar troo, l is mighty sorry OF 1t, but Ell
it must be, Ihaopcs yew vii rite to me, lettln me
kno how mulch view AK fur the %consaTn, that Is
meen the muse papur hi itself without the press aad
lob tnork. and sich like, for we've already got IA
moss press, and what1l press moss is NIFTY apt 10
press papur-but then | Amt pertickler bout the
papurs beinp pressed emmy how, as we haint got en-
nv of them folks down heer what's so tastigous and
hifalutin that they cant reed a papur unles 1t has
bin pressed, and in case emmy OF the fas''unabels
dus call to see us, mi wife has got sum smootinn
iruns and we kin hev wun "dun up Tor the occa-
shun. About that Job work, now twix yew and l
IlSttT tuu tuI, L " u LuAtiN SA2 uN> "
eff finds it nessessary I'll by that too. But L
heern tel that ole man Job were ded, aud | had no
ideur he WIS engaged in the. rfintin blzncss-by
nifty his ghost haint riz agin and gone up thar to
work has it? but then thars no teilin what ma
talk place in these spiritual times, and as we live so
far back in the swamp we never dus hecr the strait
of things ceptin now an then when Bob qulilln
shows us the papur-but never mind, Ole brndei
is up and a cummin, and Polly mi wife sez as sumo
as She has a catf, she'll maik butter cnutf to bl a
paper, but I'm rather progressin from the suhjick.
/ waunt tn kno eff ole Job dus recly wurk with
yew, so that in case | byes l kin gitlnis survives. Eff
it is the reel old time Job, | think this situashun
vii suite him, for he can stuff to his harris content
as we've got lots o'them turkeys whats cauled by
by his nailn, and tina so he wal Very fond on EN-.
Wei tina tells me yew employs a devil, and he has
charge of the lyin department, and that he is wun
of the cheef cooks and bottle woshers, and malks
pa fur view awl-now MIR. Eddytur, | don't want
no devil bout me, fur I'm shure he wood civ awl
the wimmin folks the high strieks, and as to the
paste-ry department., mi wife can nIaik as good pi
as ennybody in these united States of Ameriky.
| waunts yew to write me immeglately what is
the terms of sail, and ef yewH talk it ont in traid
Pm in fur it, I've got a monstrous scripshus lookn
tiley and Il lot Of wlloppin big sweet tata1s, ct
tha'll suit yew. | don't mcen to be inquisitlve bout
the matter, but ! thot thar was no harm in ritin to
view bout it. Hoapin that yew will tend to this
matttr of a traid, / remain as l WIS befour,
1our'n til dcth, JOHN t. CAKE
P. S.-The eight of January pass'd of in a quiet
mannur ceptin the premature xploshnm OF a shot
gun, KILN nj onto a du2Zen unoftendin ducks,
THROWN "a glu1ne over the naborhood.