Mr Gatreaux related this story to me about his
encounter.....
"Dis ol' cajun done seen de devil
dis morning, I garontee.
I brought myself outta
de
bed dis morning, before de sun com up and had me a
cup of hot chickory
cafe.
I say to myself, Maurice, you go down de bayou in yo
pirogue and cotch yourself some of dem good mud cats.
Mama Mouton need dem to make de gumbo.
'bout
dat time i dun hear a terrible racket out on de dock
an I sez, Maurice, you betta look from de window and
see wat dat is.
So I look from de window and almost
poo
poo!.
Mais!,
Dere
stood de tallest,greenest, meanest looking giant
cajun, I ever did seen.Him wus glowin dis green colur
what make de swamp lite up lak de day time.
I
know
he one mean cajun 'caus he be pickin he teeth wit a
gator tail and, mais!, it still had de live gator on
de udder end.
He had him udder hand full of my prize okra pods dat
I was using to feed dem petit red tong babettes,
(you city folk done call " Little Red Tongue Okra
ClusterBugs)", Dem petit red tong babettes tast jus
lak chikin, you know.
Dat big cajun done eat
up almos my whole patch.
Den I gots to
tinking So I sez, Maurice,
mebbe dem little red tong babettes is what cause dat
ugly ting to grow so big.
I know he skin done
look lak dat slimey green gumbo,
dats been cook too long.
I gets out dat kodak camera, I won at de Bingo Parlor
last year.
Him was fixin to hed back in de
swamp
and I gets me a pictue tru my window of dat
gros cajun
Den I gets outta my shack and brings myself down
here faster dan a chankachank on a Saty nite.Mais,
I'm tell you, I aint go back to Bayou
Pompideux, til dat ting is gone!
Here dat pitcure I done took."
At this point, Mr. Gatreux cut off the interview,
saying he had to go meet Henri Lebec to get hisself
anudder bottle of dat bon new walla wine ol' Henri
mak
las week .