The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-27

that am another day nearer the goal OF
expectation when square, meal ot.su
tidis shall have banished the apprehension
of becoming scaly A..
:. seems to me mighty curisome, SIR, dat
lie white folks eat muffin but fish an sleh
like nowadays said an old eontrapand 70
ME. this morning. and as the SUBJECT
:. Yes. it was les de same las year dis time
when | was working up de bayou at Jndge
Tete,s. Mornin' arter mornin' de cook ho!,
Jered ont to me, Z" Caesar, clean dem hSn..
Tell you. Mr. Leo, it stonlshes me, specially
when dar's plenty q hog meat an rabbits;
Will YOU mediate de proposition, sar
Yes. Caesar, will. There are two lmpor7
taut reasons why we partake OF fish, ana
discard flesh, for forty days on a stretch,
and" ;. Forty days! golly jis listen
to de mans music!"
Yves. six solid weeks-fron Mardi Gras
till after Easter Sunday. In the hrst place,
the fish are increasing in such vast quantl-
ties that unless a certain time is set apart
to thin them out, there wouldn't DC room
enough in the water for them to live. Inc
havou there would be so full of them you
co1ldn't drop in your hook. The datboats
couldn't bring us our provisions from up
country. and the steamboats-Why they
couldn't even poke their noses In the bayou,
for"
Den de Lor' sabe u.s." said fthe old
darkey, as he bent his body forward, WITH
n hand on each knee-a la base ballist-
:. but wouldn't de propumlation hear de
chin music from Capt'n Joe, an Captn
Tarbone, an wouldn't de clouds scatter
| out'n de Heaben when old Captn Charla
come on deck Great Heabens, cullered
| roustabeuts, .git in de shade"
Besides, Caesar" | continued, " Unless
these immense congregations OF hsh were
- IN; Il D1Ipf1l hn n
ner thus afforded, as food, their continued
| accumulation would breed pestilence, con-
| tagion and epidemics that would sweep,
| first, the colored race, and the whites from
| the face of the earth !"
.sDe good Lor', sar AN strike de niger
| fust! Great sakes! Whew!"
Certain, Caesar, and fer this reason our
wise Legislature has made what is called
! the .'game law" which makes it criminal to
| kill any sort of cattle during Lent, but, at
any other time in the year, and we must not
catch fish 6nly when we can't get meat"
Old Caesar was puzzled, and for about
| two minutes he stood leaning on his hoe with
| one hand and scratching his head with the
! other; then he went TO work, making pen
ell of his hoe handle and the level earth IN
| lieu of paper. At last, when he had coy
cred about twenty square feet with hero
| glyphies, his satisfaction was apparent, and
/ found vent in the following solution
Oars forty-eight weeks in year, an
Hold on, Caesar, wrong. There's fifty
| two."
How's dat, amt dar four weeks in ;
month an twelve months in year
"No, there are, thirteen months, which
! makes fifty-two weeks. What then "a.
"Thirteen months! Well, may be teto
audaciously explunotified if dis niggel
know'd dat aforel Lemme see havelt-
from 48 leaves AZ SO III put on de ode
4which makes it 46 weeks dat you eat bee
/ ana pork and only 6 on de fish question
/ Spec de- fish has de best time of it. Wha
i ignunt set niggegs is--zshuah, soliloquizet
the old darkey, as 4 was LEAKING him, r.
The absence from your columns of Broad
brini's highly interesting correspondence,
will cause unusual regret. have beel
favored in having an epistolary aequaiI
tapee with this gentleman, Of several year
standing, and have derived pleasant ant
4 beneficial information thereby. With n
neweti health and Inspirations, Broad brr
can not remain silent, and l hope ere Ion;
to congratulate your patrons on his reap
uearance on the Bohemian stage. Fame
semper' vipat.
f. j Yours, etca sgs LEO, No. 2.