The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1911-08-19
JACQUES PISTACHE.

Bv HARRY STUART sAUcIER.


"Hm!" grumbled Coco, as he con-
tinued to peruse the "Bayou Gallere
Blaetter' with enthusiastic interest
SHIN! days got fonnie ting in de pep
desc day wat me I'm doan onderstan'
vas; here day talk bout some kline ZOO
zoo wat nevare hear bout befo, me-
an 20. Jacques ?"
"Wats de matter wild yo, Coco; fo
wat yo talk wild yosef like dat; watts de
razon yo doan read de pep an doan
make de boderashun wild me?-eef yo
doan onderstan' wat yo see, den move
over an leave heem TO somboddy wat
got de brain TO onderstan'. How yo
speck a man wat got de brain o. one
mosquiter hawk TO onderstan' anything
hien!" exclaimed the irritated Jacques
over his paper.
"Abien," retorted Coco, "day ain
got no razon TO yo git mad, Jacques,
hien? Look by dis pep; kin yo tell me
wat all dat print bout. yo smart helex,
yo ?"
Jacques took the proffered paper and
scornfully replied: "Doggon, mai yo
sho got de brain, yo; l doan see watts
de madden, M'sieur Bryan doan let yo
ron TO President, sonamagon!'
"Yo mean, yo Ill microbes, dat yo
doan know wat day call one 5000" i?
Sacre non de plume! mai yo sho bette,
vol" A zoo, yo lii fgale, das plentie
hanimal in de cage-day got mo dat
to dat name, mai ain got time TO make
de remember all dat, apresan-dat's all
de same, anyhow-yas, dem "zoo', dat's
wat all dem big cite day got. Day git
man TO travel all over de worl an make
de collections wild hanimal an sen heem
home TO put in dem 'zoo''-yas, day
even go au bat d'Afrique TO dem hani-
NAL like de elefante, de lion an plentie
nodder kline hanimal, an dem tigre, too
mai day have some hard time fo ketch
dem tigre sometime. Yo know, Coco,
days got so many different kline tigre,
an
swat different kline tigre day got ?''
interrupted Coco.
80, me doan know all dem different
kline wat day got, day got so many!
Days got de stripe tigre, de black tigre,
de Bengals tigre, de hack tigre, am
"Wat's de hack tigre?" again inter-
rupted the interested Coco.
"Abien, de hack tigre, Coco, das de
mo bad hanimal wat day got-das de
hanimal wat drive hsSk in de day time
ies like one mans, an wen night come
he go bline, heem; an wen hees bline
das de time hees de mo dangerous, vas!
"Oh, h"os bad hanimal, alright; an,
dough he doan keel nobody wild hees
teet like dem nodder tigre, he kin take
mo bread out dem wife an chillen mout
den anything yo know bout. Vas, ma
fren, day would be whole lot mo nice
dress an beefsteak TO de famille eef dat
was not TO dat tigre!"
"Abien," exclaimed Coco, show come
day doan put heem in dem 5000,
Jacques ?''
"Oh, day got one 400" TO heem,
mai day cant keep heem in dare 10 long
time; he always git hout. Mai Robere
lie Mare say he goin feex dem puttie
soon; he say he goin put one shanes on
day leg an feex hup de road wild dem
Mai wat yo goin do, Coco? Jes soon
day turn loose day goin git bline agin,
yas
"One fella she was tell me dat eef all
dem tigre in de Bay day was put in one
ZOO, dat wood take all Bob Murder hees
time TO feed dem, yas!
"Yo know, de odder days day ketch
one lii fat tigre-de kline day call de
"Fafay" tigre-an' day say he gone
bline TO time already, an wen he go
in front de Robere le Mare, Robere say
dat wort fiftie dol!are fo every time he
go bline, an, mon ami, dat gros ter
reeb tigre he make de revicie wild two
hondred barat somols wat day say was
100 proof
"Ah, La-la! Dem Tigre!"