| Show TH THE ae WOOING OF ANGELA mp H LANCASTER copyright 1901 by DAILY STORY COMPANY neva hear how T leophile come to marry angela noa das one good story yas old man lizana took a long pull at the anisette leaned back on the log clasped his knotted hands about his knees and smiled meditatively at the aes imes that rose and fell in the hollow morton frowned he did not want to hear the story not that he doubt ed it a being good lizana was a frenchman french to the heart he could tell a story even a bad story and not lack tor for lizt listeners eners I 1 dont don t know but yes it Is this way your frenchman can be a hog say things thing do things even write things quite hoggish and altogether dreadful and yet people smile Comment 7 9 the hog is only a curl tailed pig after all with his impudent nose in the air and his roguish byj a ah ali but it Is different with your englishman when he plays the hog he must needs eat carrion and roll in the mud the very vilest mud A hog is a filthy brute don t you knowd and whatever he elects to do be it bravery or brut tallness john english goes the whole thing your american looks on and laughs it if he Is not too busy with his money mal ing but this was not a bad story any girl could have heard it it why should morton hold back from the tempting treat well there were several reasons the s story C ory was hard on his host this was leophile lesseig s chopping and it Is ardly fair to laugh at a man behind ills Is back while you drink his abir te leather rather one should chop logs into coal kiln lengths as one is expected to do as those young fellows down there in the hollow were doing running races and guying one another on to exertions truly strenuous div ing promise of a successful chopping teophile git hees bees wood all cot dia dig time sho she grinned old man LI zana he slapped his leg guffawed tipped the anisette jug and said resumed his story morton laid down in the grass he wanted to hear and he did not want to make the old man mad certain ment he was in love with the old mans man s daughter the pretty camille old men with pretty daughters are generally popular with young men at least it la Is so on bayou des arcadian Arc Ar adlen et was dis way the old man began teophile he been comin see angela long time long time yas evva since dey was chillen morton nodded he knew well the customs of the people he had elected to live with their long their early marriages and hard work ing patient lives dumb anre spon elve sive pathetic with a strange note of poetic joyousness running through the whole puzzling and foiling alike to psych and politician sir said the psychologist your cajan will give a lazy ha ha where any other white man would swear and then sir turn around and fly into a perfect frenzy of rage at nothing sir responded the politician who V A I 1 v ole A das one gool story yas had once paid a cajan s poll tax in order to get his vote and had not gotten it sir if it one of those pig headed numbskulls gets an idea into bis his head nothing snort of du amite will vill get got it out you may tall bot coir r sell as hoarse as a dry v eather fro fros while he sits there roll ng cigarettes and saying das so das so yas by the great lord harry sir you leave him he Is exactly where you id nd him meanwhile old man lizana telling the story ot of theophile s long wooing A pretty tale all flecked over with moonbeams and wild flowers A story too of long lonely rides through the small hours when the boy having sat halt the night on the steps with bla his fawn eyed sweetheart made his way to the distant logging camp riding hard that bis his team might be the first to role out at crack of dawn old man lizana sketched it all in graphically and morton lay in the grass giving as touch much heed beed to the song of the axes in the hollow as to the slow drawling voice at his elbow when the old fellow leaned forward and spread out his toll toil twisted fingers it would be time enough to listen presently that time came A knotty aa t coin marry dat girl coln die forefinger slipped its interlacing tel fel lows and pointed southward angelas papa leve down condah he ile fesh for de fact ry debbe he be gone week debbe mont neva know eef beef he find shrimp de do first day the heavy stooped shoulders came into play while he was gone das angela and T leophile tall fall out I 1 nevva hear what he do but angela git mad m a d call heem polecat den T leophile he git mad too but h hees mad was diff diffident rent from angela GUT girl git mad more quick dan boy but boy stay mad das so haq ya T leophile he go down to de store and mek beeg brag say he want nevva goin marry des lay low by bremby em by here come T leophile walkin mighty beeg and whistle shake out hees bees sail and slide off from de wharf slow and quiet dey bey want moch breeze beet was jes before day and mos always boet a fighte steel jes bafo day but teophile keep sleeping away sleeping away till he get good piece out and old man ain aln t showed op alt dere was his boat all tied up and dere was T eo phile where was the old man jes den a beetle skeet poke beets nose out from under de do wharf I 1 see a man mans a back an den de old mans man s cap and angela no he ile goin sell hees bees horst and buy boat den he goin way long way yae yas over to louisiana and he did cajan don talk for bothin he ile sell hees hoes horse and buy bees hoes boat and jes bout dat time angela a papa come home down to the store dey tell him bout beeg brag T teophile mek how ilow he say he ain aln t nevva goin marry an gela and how he coln start early next mornin tor for louisiana old man didn dian say moch no daa das cajan s way when somin som in coln happen but me I 1 know early next mornin I 1 go down on de wharf and som pin black on the las IRS seat and den I 1 know what s coln happen sho she but dat move yas run like scared deer and Teo teophilea philes boat goin slow more slow de wind almost dying out den T leophile be he catch on he git out hees bees oars and begin to pull pull h hard a rd tonne fonne yas heem in dat beeg boat and das sheet like scared seared deer fonne yas but it didn dian t las IRS long bout t tree ree minutes old man pull in hees bees oars and stand op dey want no more black t ting ing on de las IRS seat but dere was som pin against de old man a shoulder and som pin close to hees bees cheek and T leophile s sail so steel it couldn coulden scare a div beetle while ev t ing mighty quiet den de old man a oice come oi er de 9 at go n marry flat girl goin die T coph ie he 1001 at de old man over dat gun 1001 at de sail look all t den he pick up de line an and d trow row beem to angela angelas s papa and de d next la I 1 e marry angela angelat down to de store de say T eo pallo and angela mek op but tae ine I 1 know how dey come melt mek op the old fella g s guffaw caught the attention of the youngsters coming up from the hollow in search of the anisette jug what a de do fon pere they shouted to him morton got up and walked away his ills mouth felt a little dry there might be something very picturesque about this breach of 0 prom lee ise suit that was heard tried and decided all inside of three minutes by an old man in a boat while the beautiful early light broke over the dreamy waters but morton a soliloquy took another turn the way with these cussed i cajano when their blood bloods s up they don t care that for the laws of god or man the women are beautiful and obedient the men peaceful as well fed steers it you don t make them mad it you do morton found his horse mounted it and rode away he ile had decided not to stay for the dance that would wind up the chopping camille would be therea yes but then it was camille s papa who had just been telling him that one good story |
