The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1901-02-02
800 Yo'RE gwine ovah thar to Cal

100 YO'RE gwine ovah thar to Cal
weston, air yo', so that the world
kin know how 10, 600 human critters Civ
ND their lives Wuz you evan in one ut
them coast storms, stranger? Did yo'
evan happen to be roun' when the sea
SWEEP things clar TO miles, ieavin' only
hyar en- thar poo stranded cuss to
mourn the loss of loved ones? No?
Thank God TO- tibet, stranger.
when Al saw tibet thar line in the
mo'nin Picayune ez we wuz pullin' out
FIN New Orleans, Ten Thousand Dead,
Twenty Thousand Injured All won
dered how many readers thar 'vuz ez
would really know what tibet thar
meant. faint them tibet go down be-
meath the waves that hez nah deepes'
pity. Coin down dom las long. All
speaks. sub, uf them tibet hez to stan
by helpless en- see those tibet he hobs q
thousan' times dearer then life itself
SWEEP away by the mad, rushing tide.
All ain't agwine fab yo're way. stranger.
All hev TO get off at Crowley. but All
reckon All sh'll hev time to tell yo'. It's
just barly possible tibet yo' en- All shall
meet agin en- eff we DON mebbe yoll see
fit to tell them thar no'then newspaper
feIlers tibet All hearn yo' say tibet yo'
worked fo' nah little story of Edwin
en- Genie.
.Ah wuz livin' down near the bayou
Cook. Plaquemine parish. sixty odd
mile below New Orleans, in those days.
not fab FIN Buras township. Genie
wuz a creole. She wuz plain en- simple
uf dress. sweet en- Heavenly. sub. When
All think uf her Al seem to heah the
ring of distant church bells ez the
used to ring when she, little miss uf
twelve er tharabouts. in snow-white
gown en- with sprig uf jessamine err
valley lilies in her ha'r used TO trip
erlong past our plantation uf Sunday
mo'nin' on her way to our parish
church. Like the church bells, her
mission seemed to be to summon souls
to bettah things. The wuzent much
about her pedigree to brag on. but,
stranger, if yo' could hev took one look
into them deep blue eyes with the
long dark lashes, yo' would hev allowed
tibet the he'd cornered all the sunshine.
All took that look mahself, sub. an All
hevent seen the sun shine elsewhar
ecnce.
"Edward-Ah calls him tibet. now
he'd everythin' to brag on in the way
uf pedigree, en-. ez All look at it now,
in everythin' else tibet goes to make up
she gentleman, but he nevah said much
about hisself. Neither of his parents
wuz Twin en- he WIZ pretty much alone
in the worl. He wnz tall, broad
shouldered en- handsome. He come FIN
up yo're way somewhat, New York
state. All reckon Mebbe yo' know uf
him er his family. Las name wuz No
BILE. All cayent figure it tibet he could
hev been bettah named unless it would
have been Noble Edward Noble; fhet's
what All hev on his tombstone row;
but Aim getting ahead uf nah story.
Edward en- All wan the bes' uf fren's
I'm the fust. though the fault uf tibet
WIZ altogether mine. All he'd been
used to hevin' things pretty much nah
own way. Nah paw he'd the bes' plan
tation in the parish, sub. 1t he'd been
in our family sence Jackson's army
moved on New Orleans en- our bottom
lam crop uf rice en- cane wuz, Al reek-
on, the bes' tibet grew. Nah parents
he'd set a heap on me. en- All remembah
well the day tibet nah nav (she wuz
I'm the proudes' family in the Ian.
subj. tole me tibet she hoped she would
nevah liy TO see the day tibet a son of
hers would take to wife low-bohn
creole. en- the tears tibet dimmed her
eyes, sub, KEEP me FIN sayin' what All
should hev been sorry fo'. Gerie
want low bohn, nohow. stranger.
s'Befo' many days he'd passed, All
he'd asked her to be mine, an.
though she nevah quite consented,
the WIZ moments thar tibet All felt
ez though it wuz only matter ufl
time when she would give in. en- when
once, stranger, All thought thet All
saw the love light shine in them dear
blue eyes, nah heart seemed sho'
enough to STAN still en- NAH breath
came short en- quick. The wuz the
sunshine days. sub.
Edward came down to study the ef- |
feet uf various fertilizers on our long
stap,e cotton en- tibet itself wuz enuff |
TO set the fab a smolderin'. We felt in |
them days just aftah the war more
than we do now thet the south wuzl
lully able TO see TO the cotton rails
In er anythin' else ex fan ez tibet
goes, down in Dixie. without the in
uf Yankees with any uf
their dog gone scientific ideas. What
II fnst diden' amour to much broke
put into full flame uf hatred when
Alb saw thet Edward had his eye ON
nah Genie. All saw them standin' to-
gether once. under the big pecan tree
N front uf her house ex An wuz ridin'
past. Nah fust impulse wuz to pass
,n ez though All hedent noticed finer,