Word: cajun
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...convict, woman and baby are rescued, get mixed up with Chinese muskrat hunters from the Louisiana swamps, are turned loose, drift to the house of a kind-hearted French-speaking Cajun alligator hunter, somewhere near the Gulf. When the convict sees his first alligator, and understands that it is to be killed, he thinks, "Well, maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before." With that he jumps overboard, catches the alligator around the neck, stabs it. The convict becomes a local hero...
...indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana's first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire...
...persuade Louisiana voters that orthodox doctors had neglected them and that he & Dr. Vidrine were their saviors, Long strutted all over the State, telling Cajun, Creole, hillbilly and villager to hurry over to New Orleans and get cured. Charity Hospital's admissions jumped from 1,800 to 3,800 patients a day, causing acute overcrowding. The fact that doctors on the staff intrigued against each other to curry Long's favor or to keep out of the range of his vindictiveness made matters worse...
...Toussaint was a buxom Cajun widow with seven children, and well along in years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room...
Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner Martin, no Creole, calls himself an Acadian (i. e. descended from Acadian exiles). But nobody except a jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach...