The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-08-16
JACQUES PI6TACHE.
Br HARRY STUART sAucIER.

aDem hole doggone Etats Unis heee
git bad in de hole, herln wrathfully ex-
claimed M'sieur Pistache 70 his hearers
the other day in Henri's barber shop
"How yo make dat hout, jacques ?''
queried his friend Coco, "ain' dis de
mo strong an de mo gran contry wat
day got, hien ?'
.Oh, yas! day ain got no nevalr min
but dis Unine State heem hees gran an
strong; mai, ma fren, de mo gran an
de mo strong ting sometime hees goin'
TO make one slip hup, an jes apresans
dem hole Unine State shes on de slide,
heem. doan mean TO say, Coco, dat
shes goin' fall down like 70, wen 70 hit
dem banana peel on la rue Canal las
Mondy; wat me drive hat is dat de
great honeur an de deegneety of dem
Unine State hees be drag tru mud wild
de smell o. dem "chili con carne' hang
in on lax seed tick to po calf! Dog
gone! dat make me mad, yas! OATS
'nough TO make any mans mad who got
one hounce de patriot in shes yeinl Wat
mo yo want den have good Mexican
peep murder over dare in Mexicos TO
nottin' helse den day is Mexican, hien?'
s..Yas, dat's true, sho 'nough," re-
piled Coco. "But, Jacques, dat M'sieu
Bryans heem he say yo got TO use some
deescreshion in dat beeznees."
s'Le diable wild all dem deescresion!
Wat lie tonnere we got use TO dem dees-
creshion ting wen dem dynamites ees
so cheap, hien? Dem Mexicane heem
she already speet on dat Unine State
flags; now wat we goin' fe do? Wait
teel she trow de hole doggone speetoon
on US? Vas, den we reach hover dem
riviere Rio Grande an slap somboddy
on de iris, hien? Dat kline beeznees,
ma fren, doan make de happeal wild me,
nonI De frs ting yo know dem Mexi-
cane an dem Joponese peep goin'
jomp hup, like M'sieu lie General jack
son, on top one cotton bales an tell us
de same ting wat le general tell to
M'sieu Packinghams wen hees come
hup dat riviere wild shes boat TO fight.
I ain goin' TO tell yo now wat he say,
TO dat doan look joi in print, heem.''
"But, jacques" anxiously queried
Coco, "wat's de naadder wild M'sieu lie
Colonel Teddie, heem, dat hees doan
say nottin'?"
"Hien? abien yo nice lookin' Coco,
yo; doan yo nevaire read de pep? Doan
yo know M'sieu Teddy heem hees doan
got nottin' TO sayP An doan yo know
dat eef he have sons say he
wouldn't say It'll Non. mon ami, dat
M'sieu 1eddie heem hees sharp, vas;
wen he see dat beeznees comm he pack
hup shoes creep an go way hout by
L'Arizonas. Yo know wat he say ? he
say: "Let de pie burn; me ain de
cook !"-Mai, Coco, dat's doggone good
ting TO dat M'sieu Huerta dat le Colo
mel ain de cook, yas! BY dis time dat
M'sieu Huerta heem he would have one
terreeb attack de wat ma fren call "Po-
leeteek Indigestion, an dat would end
hup in one beeg parade wild de flag at
haf' mas in Mexicos - lemme tell yo!
Yo tink dat situation heem snees grave,
Jacques" ?"
"Grave-Huh! she's mos Fill de grave,
Coco-all day need dat's one sexton, an
hees gone wes'!'
"Mai, wat day sen M'sieu Jean Lind
down dare fo?" interrogated the in
quisitive Coco.
"M'sieu lie President Wilson heem
she SEN M'sieu Lind down like one doc
teur:-fo feel de pulse an see watts
bitin' de greaser, den hees goin' make
one reports, an M'sieu Bryans heem
she's goin' see wat kline medceen day
make de require, yo see. Maybe day
need hot pill, eh, Coco?
Yo know, ma fren, de Unine State her
she hought hone all dem country clean
down by dem Panamas Canal; dat's de
only way TO have peace, dat; den day
wouldn't have SO many scrap 'mong
demself, an day wouldn't be so many
widder an horpan down by dem contry.'
aMai, Jacques, hear one fellas say
day goin' make heem hot TO M 'sieu Jean
Lind" said Coco.
Hot? vas day goin' make de soup
hot; dat's all! Yo know dem fella day
git plentie hexcite down dare; day mos
had as 20 fren M'sieu Rafe TO git hex
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"Wat's de madder wild M'sieu Rafe,
Jacques ?" asked Coco.
Mai yo din see all dat las Sondy in
church, Cocol Doggonel me / come
close TO laugh loud wen see dat: 70
know dat M'sieu Rafa heem she pass de
plate 'roun fo peek hup dem monies;
abien las Sondy (yo know dat M'sieu
Rafe heem shes one bachelors), wen
hees make de revicie wild de plate he
come by one pews ware day was have TO
o. five fine young gal sit dare. Abien,
dat make heem so hexcite dat he make
de speel wid dem nickel alIover de flo'-
me ! look roun' an, parol d'honeur,
Coco, dat M'sieu Rafe heem shes face
was mo red like Tommie Quintini she's
necktiel Nobody evare see M'sieu
Rafe blosh like dat in de pas seventy
year. Dat night (day tell mel be tell