New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-06-03
THE KNOCKERS CLUE.

There is a certain town that lay over
! against the river Teche in the land OF
/ Louisiana that was badly infested with a
/ sect called Knockers and these Knockers
were many.
( Yea. as many as the sands OF the
sea and they said one. unto the other
. .I.rt Ms knock
/ Aud. 10 and behold, they knocked with
an exceeding loud knock aud they
/ laughed and Yid unto the people
| Look at our hammers.
Aud the people looked aud saw the
/ Knockers with their hammers aud they
couucilpd among themselves aud, This
must he TIE Anvil Band of which we have
/ been tod
The Knockers after a fashion of THEN
own continued TO knock and they knocked
and knocked and Knocked.
There was IA certain Wise Guy, among
, the Knockers by the pane OF Big Bluff,
| a son of All Month, the son of No Brains,
who was he son of Aunanas, and Big
! Bluff was like unto his fathers even unto
the tenth generation,
And Big Bluff toted hammer of ex-
ceedug great size and said in loud voice,
Il am It," and all the people began TO
wonder what kind of msu this was.
An il came to pass that among these
Knockers were knockers who knocked one
another,
Aud Big Bluff the son of All Mouth the
son of No Brains, girded up his lons about
him and said unto his knockers" Verify,
verify say unto you cease your knocking
one to the other, for who soever knock
etligone of the Knockers, bringeth dis
cord unto our anvil chorus; When We
knock, knock with all your might, but
hearken unto what say, knock not one
another,
So the Knockers went forth to knock.
| They sat in pnblic places in the streets
and whitfield on the boxes of the mer-
chants thereof and said unto the passerby
"This is He'll of n town. and then the
stranger within the gates OF The city said
unto the knocker, Whats the matter
with the town.
! The Knocker with wise look would
say: "She aint worth dam.
! Aud then the stranger would take up
his grip and straight way leave the land
of the Knockers.
| And it was known that the kaocker
/ lived in the house of his mother-in law, he
/ and his wife and his children aud his
1hildrsns dogs.
And the people began to say. one unto
the other. "Let rs be up and doing, and
they met and said Let us gather to
gether many eggs such as the hens OF
/ his land lay And they went straight
way and searched under the house and up
/ ia the barn and came with many eggs
that had no date upon them and when the
Knoeker lifted up his voice in the public
place, the air was filed with eggs, which
mote him on the nose and cheek and he
wasa sight,
And the people sang songs OF praise;
( and the knocker ran even like unto a
scared wolf with split stick on his tail;
And the people followed and thus 1t
came to pass, that the motheriB- law
bought ice cream and cake, for the multi
| tude.
When this was made known to the rest
of the Knockers, they said; Let us de-
part in peace, do not smite MS with eggs
as you smote our brother" and the peo-
Pile said, "Depart" and they took the 9
o'clock train ont of town, and even unto
/ this day no knocker is seen in this town;
Aud the people were happy and SAID,
1.-The Knockers got knocked"
Moral--If Won can't bost Your home
/ town. get out of it. before you are run ont
of it.