The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-29

day a case was being tried before Squire
Summers and a jury which had been up
once before and had resulted in mis-
trial. While the clerk was swearing the
jury in fO' the second attempt, some one
happened to remark aloud that the form
Johann Kaufb0id, one Of the jury elect,
"churies get hung here, helm 2" One of
the lawyers gravely said: Yes, that
happens sometimes" "Whot," said JO-
hann, g don't go on dat chury, you pet;
goes to mein house, and if you wants
chUrics to hang yOu gets EN- we're you
can, amt it," And Johann bounced off,
while court, lawyers and spectators were
cOnyulsed with laughter.
Mrs. MALoNEY ON THE CHINESE QUEs-
TION.-Och don't be talkin'. Isith0Wld
on, ye say? An, didn't how'd on till
the heart Ofme was clane broke entirely,
and me wastin7 that thin y0n could clutch
me wild yer two hands. To think o. me-
toilin', like a nager for the six year I've
been in Ameriky-bad luck to the day I
liver left the ovid country! to be, bate
by the likes o them! (faix an I'll sit
Ryan, an yed better be listnin' than
drawin' your remarks) an is it meself,
with five good characters from respect
! able places, would be herdin' wild the
haythens? The saints forgive me but
| I'd be buried alive sOoner'n put up wild
| it a day longer. Sure an was the Crane
horn not to be lawn at Onct when the
missus kim into me kitchin wild her per
laver about the new waiter man which
was brought out from Calif0rny. "Hell
be here the night says she, " and Kitty,
it's meself looks to you to be kind and
patient wild him, for he's a furriner,"
says she, a kind o. lOObin' off. Sure an
it's little I'll hinder nor interfare wild him
nor any other, num-" says /, q kind o.
stiff for | minded me how these French
walters, wild their paper collars and brass
rings on their fingers, isn't company for
no gurril brought up dacint and honest.
Och! sorra a bit | knew what was conain'
till the missus walked into me Kitchen
smilin'. and says kind o shweat: g Here's
Fling Wing, Kitty, an you'll have too
much sinse to mind his bein' a little
strange" Wild thatshe shoots the doore,
and /, misthrusting if was tidied uD
sufficient for me fine buy wild his paper
: collar, looks up and-Howly fathers
: may niver brathe anothor BREATH but
: there stud O rale haythen Chineser q
grinnin' like he'd just come off tay- box.
{ If you'll behave me, the crayture was
that yeller it 'ud sicken you to see him;
l and SorFa stitch was on him but q black
front of his head shaved claner nor O
!, copper biler, and q black tail a hanging
I from it behind, wild his two feet stock
u into the heathenestest Cho0s you ever set
T ewes on. Och but | was upstairs afOre
y YOU could turn about, q givin' the missus
! warnin', an only stopt wild her by her
! y raisin' me wagestWO dollars and playdi117
l. Wid me how it was O. christians duty to
y ! bear wild haythins, and taitch 'em all in
u cur poWer--the saints save us! Well!
&c the ways and trials had wild that Chi
5e neser, Ann Ryan, | couldn't be tellin7.
IS Not q blessed thing cud do but he'd be
{, loOlzin1 on wild bis eyes cooked up'aFd
II like too .pOomp- handles, an his. finger
s. nails full q yard long. But it's dyin'
/ you'd be to see the missus 8'1alnina him,
and he grinnin' an waggin' his pig tail
Is (Which was pieGed out long wild some
dl black stool, the haythen. chate J and
ie gettin' into her ways wonderful quick,
don't deny, imitatin' that sharp, you'd
be surprised, and ketehin' an eopyin'
- things the best of us will do q horTied
a, knowledge Of the family-bad luck to
NJ NJ him! !@@@@e 0.f@n 5@ E.@ #sr-
~ ~ Is it ate wild him? Arrah, an would
of / be sittin' wild q haythen an he a-aitin
" Wid drum -sticks--yes, an atm dogs an
- cats uIlknoWnst to me, warrant YOU
III whichit isthe custom of them ChifleseTs
r. till the thought made me that sick
n4 could die. An didn't the craytlre prof
~ fer to help me wake ago come Toosday
a an me foldin' down me ELAINE clothes
~, for the ir0nin', an fill his haythenmOutE
~ wild wather am, afore / could hinder
sLi u SQUIRT it through his teeth strate Over
- the best linen table-cloth, and fold it III
or tight as innereeIit now asa baby, thu
- DIRTY baste! It's yerself knows tht
- tinder feet that's on me since ever IyC
Io bin in this cOunthry. Well, OWN to that
n0 [ fell into way o. slippin' me shoes of
r. when I'D be settin' down to pale the pra
ne ne ties or the likes O that, an, doye mind
an .en that haythen would do the same thins
~ 0n after me Whiniyer the missus set him tt
.Sa '@ pafffi' apples or ternlatesses. The saint
~ in heaven couldn't have him behave h
ym .,,a cud kape the shoes on him mwhen he'd b
IL paylin' anything.
10 Did lave fur that 2 Faix an / didn't
IIo Didn't he get me into tlir0uble wild IN,
We missus, tile haythen? You're awar
~ II yerself how the bO0ndles comm in fr0n
. the grocery often contains niOre'n I'll e
si% into anything dacently. So, for tEla
3r3 matter I'd now and then take out a. Gu
-" o. sugar, or flour, or tay,, an wrap it il
q me bit of box tucked under the ironin
- bIankit the how it cuddent be bOderir
of any one. Well, what shudit be, but tbi
M blessed Saturday morn the missp
re-. was spakin' pleasant and Tespec7fu
lar wild me in me kitchen when the gfoce
am bov comes in an stands fornist her Wi
nd his boOndles, an she motions like t
If Fling Wing (which never call him b
! il that name ner any other just bnt hathin
fhe she motions to him, for to take the boon
md dies an empty out the sugar an, wha
me not where they belongs Hyou1l belav
ST: hme, Ann Ryan, what did that blatheri1
aat Chineser do but take out 3 cup O suga
lev an d. handful O tay, and a bit o. chazt
md right afere the missus, wrap them int
re- bits o. paper, AM spacheless wild shul
ler. prize, an he the next minute up wild tn
irOnin' blanlit and pullin' out me DO
I'VE wild q show o. bein' sly to put them in i
he Och, the Lord forgiyeme, but l clutche
zed 1T, and the missus sayin', o Kitty ~
,afa la . way that 'ud cruddle your blood. 4 He
md md q haythin nager," says |. I've foun
s' Won OUT says she. "TlI artist him
saws /. It's you ought to be arristed
hat saws she. +" on won't, says ]. q viii
was says she-and so it went till she give n
and such sass as cuddent take from no lad
-an' / give her warnin' and left that II
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