The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-04-24
JAcQUE PisTAcHE's LETTER.
Saturday, April "a, 'N.

Me jes revicie one lettre from ma
fren Teodore laba in L'Afric; an, dog
gon, me was sho glad TO make das
revicie, vas; cause me was make de
plentie worry bout heem evair since l
reed in one pep wat was rite by one
fella in some nodder place. Das man
he rite an say dat some kline doggon
fly Che call heem de "Tse-tse", bleev,
goin bite das Teodore an keel heem,
vas; an nodder fella he say day got one
kline tick wat goin bite heem, too, an
keel heem agin. Sonamagon, all das
fool talk; make me worry TO Teodore,
yas!
Mai, l got hees lettre now, me, an
I'm goin tell yo dat Teodore he doan
git skeerd bout das fly an das tick, non!
Dis de lettre wat me l got:-
"Oompoupou, L'Afric.
"Ma deer Jacque!
81 no 20 was goin worry bout me, so
taut was goin rite yo soon | git by
das Ian. Dis mornin day let me git off
das ship L'Admiral, an all de peep
show me good time, yas! All de bote
bio de wissel an shoot dc gon hoff, an
de peep trow day hat up an make noise,
too, an look like de populashion of de
hole PAfric she come see me git Ian.
Mai doan give doggon bout dat, fo de
razon me I'm use dat kline fuss at home.
Wen we git hoff das ship, de CRATE
Governor Jackson an de CRATE Cheef
Umjiji Gagasheen de la Cocoiri day
meet me an den day bow an keek up
plentie dus an day make speech. Das
cheef he say somteen like dis:-"Boom-
ra chong ding dang tony fun bal"
Das de way he want tell me was much
welcome by das kontry, yas!
"Oh, tell 70, Jacque, day have bully
time, vas, dem peep! One fella he tell
me dat das Goveneur jackson he brave
man; he got de grits of one lion, yas
Mai das big cheef Umjiji; he doan got
de brane of one muskeete hark, non!
"Dis fine kontry, yas! mai doggon das
mo hot like anything wat me nevair see!
Dis l'Afric she don got some hot liar,
too, an me bleev Pm goin start nodder
Hananias Clob down by dis place like
das one wat have by Washington, yo
no, hien ! Wen we was in das Metera-
MEN Hocean, me got one Frenchmans
on das Hananias lis, yas; doggon, mai
das reporta fella he pass das hinitiashion
TO memship fine.
"Me | doan hunderstan wat das Cheef
Umjiji he talk bout; mai by de way he
cot up me | tink he one happlicashion
70 memship, too. Doggon, das one ogly
man, sonamagon! Hees wat ma fren
Jimmie Lafievre call one fgale de la
magatz, yas!
swat all dem peep talk bout one sis
sic fly watts goin bite me, Jacque ?
"Mai yo got no nevair mine worry
bout das kline fly; me kin fite das kline
/ fly evair since me bin yong fella, an
day doan kill me yet, non!
"Me nevair bin bite by das Hafrican
sissie fly, mai bin bite plentie time by
das Merican sissie fly, an, lemme tell
yo, 1 bleev, Jacque. like das kline bite
me, doap yo?
"I come close 10 foget tell yo bout
das banquet wat we have halter me l
git on das Ian; doggon das one mo BAN
quet! Pm goin try TO tell yo all wat
day got heat; mai das tabe she was
lode down, vas; me doan no wat kline
hanimal day keel TO das banquet; mai
look fonrie!
"Me I make one speech, Goveneur
Jackson he make one an den some nod
der fella, an den dat sonamagon, Cheef
Umjiji he git up an make out he no
how talk. Mai who no wat das fella
say, pas moi, cher petit
"Me taut he was load wild gasoline
an was goin bus mos anytime, so was
sho glad me wen he quit all das choom
film bang bong clang! Me doan come
all dis way TO heer das fool kline talk.
l went hout, me. Abien, Jacque, me
| see DtlilS uc uOlcm UOWH III w uouIbS
ton, hien? Das bully, doggon! me I no
who kin do dat. Mo bedder ting go rite
all time vile I'm gone, cause 81 day
doan, somboddy goin git spank wen
git back, yas! Me I'm goin rite mo
halter vile.
I'm goin leeve dis doggon place to-
mite, vas, on one special trane an goin
by one big place wat one fella he hone.
den we goin git das hexpedition rite
Den look hout TO das sissie fly an yo
fren! theodore"
We goin have big time Monday wid
das baseball TO de Firemans on das
green-de Hobos day gCin play de Dude
an das be good ting TO sho das pooblick
speerit, an everybody go, vas! Allon
help das Firemans all yo good peep!
Votre Ami,
JACQUE PISTACHE