La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-03-24

THIBODAUX.
kohen for a dollar and 1--WE cents, ana
'hohen knowd all about his contrakt with

kohen For a. dollar and 1--WE cents, and
hohen knowd oil about his contrakt with
me. 1sa-s s
Me and him like TO have fit, and per-
/ naps would ifI haaent been phnys but we
nnaily feft 1t all to Josh Billins to arbi-
.rate. Old Josh deliberated on the thing
| TOR three days and nights. and finally
ofougnt1n an award that Kohen should
nave the wheat, and / should have the
preference. ! haint submitted no more
cases to arbitration since. and nv advice
to all peepul is to arbitrate nuthin if YOUR
case rs honest, for there amt no 1udga
there to keep one man from trickin the
i other. An honest man don't stand no
i chance nowhere exseppin in court house
with a good lawyer to back h7x The
motto In this case is, never to arb;trate
nuthin but bad case, and take . good
lawyers advice and pay him for it before
you do that.
But ! got Fretman dident but nv
lawyer Marks did. Fretman was a school
teacher, who had gone round my nabor-
hood with his skool artikles, and put
down for Troup and Calhoun to go, and
intended to send seven or eight more. If ih
proved himself right. u soon found that
| the little nullifier wasent believin in any
thing, and on inquiry found that Nutmeg
was gisin powerful long recesses, and
| was employin his time chiefly in carryi,ii
ION with tolerabul sized female gal that
was goin to him. Troup sed he heard the
gal squeel herself one day, and he knowa
Fretinan was squeezin of her. / dident
mind our boys squeezin Of the Yankee
gals, but I'll be blamed if the Yankees
shall be q squeezin ourn. So / got maa
and took the children away. At the end
of the term Fretman sued mo for eight
cen dollars, and hired iascheap -lawyertto
-collekt it.
Before this time had learned some
sense about lawyer. so I hired a good
one, and spread my pocket book down
before him, and told him to take what
would satisfy him, And Ne TUX. Ola
Phil Davy was the justice. Marks made
the opef1in speech to the effekt that every
professional man ought to be able TO Illus
trate his trade, and he therefore proposed
to put Mr.. Fretman on the stand and
spell him. This motion were font hard
but it agreed with old Phil's notions Of
thigh justice and sense of right and
says he: !" Mr.. Fretman, you will have to
SPELL" Mark then swore him, that he
would give true evidence in this case, and
that he would spell every word in Daniel
Webster's spellin book correktly to the
best of his knowledge and belief. so help
him, &c. / saw then that he we're trem-
bin dll over like cold wet dog.
Says Mark, s.Mr. Fretnan, spell
tisik i well, he spelt it, putting ia q pl,
and th and d gh ard III. and I don't
know what all, and I thought be vas gone
up the first pop, but Marks said it wss
right. He then spelt him right strait
along on all sorts Of big words, and little
words, and long words, and, short words.
and afterwards, and he knowd EN- nll, nj
finally Mark says, g Now, sur, spell ,Om-
pompynusuk. Fretman drawded 4 long
breth and sed it wasenr in the book:
Marks proved it was by an old preacher
who was sitting by, and old Phiio spoke
up with power, ses he, 81. Mr.. fsesaaan:
you must spell it,, sur" Fretman, 4
swettin like arun down flly, tux one PASS
at il and missed. SIS
You can como down, SUR. saya
AlaTks, "yon've lost your case.'' And
shore cnuf, old Phil gave yerdik against
lin like darn.
Marks wasa whale in his way. At that
same court he was about to .nonstit
loktor bekaus he dident have his diplony.
md the idoktor begged the court for time
10 go home after it. He rode seven miles
and back as hard as he could lick it, and
when he handed il over to Marks yery
Marks ses, z Now, sur, you
will take the stand and translate this Latin.
nto English, so that the court may under-
stand it, Well, he just caYed, for. he
,ouldent do it.
He lost his case in two minets, for thA
lid squire said that doktor who cnuldent
cad his dimplomy had no more right to
,raktis than a magistrate who couldent
cad the license he had to jine two couple
ogether. This is q warnin TO all profess
.onal men to understand their bisness,
nd the moral of the case is, TINT man
u5htent to be squeezin the gals when
nybody can see him. But don't want
understood that I'm agin it on proper
kashuns and in tender manner. Their
int no squeelin necessary.
But must close this brief epistle,
Yours, truly, BILL ARP.
P. ST. forgot to mention that the
T6puiI1PH y DuTU ldto Hdu IHG MP DekauS
frs. Arp turned off her nurse for not talk
j baby talk to her chile. She said that
y wife throwd a cheer at her. The
lin hussy was there wearin Mrs. Apps
oliar and shawl, that she d stole. / pinted
rem out to the Bnfo, and left in defiant
sgust. The moral Of this is ito stand
our grown or ndrse your babies your-
If D. Al
WHAT IS A DARLING IA leading
lestion. but herein prettily answered.
o one but father or brother could
i've written it
A darling is dear little beaniing girl
no meets one on the door-step whe