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Bayou Folk written by Kate Chopin who was an American author of short storiesand novels based in Louisiana. This book was published in 1894. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy reading this book.

One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing a conversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted."There's big money in it, Offdean," said the elder of the two. "I would n't have you touch it if there was n't. Why, they tell me Patchly 's pulled a hundred thousand out of the concern a'ready.""That may be," replied Offdean, who had been politely attentive to the words addressed to him, but whose face bore a look indicating that he was closed to conviction. He leaned back upon the clumsy stick which he carried, and continued: "It's all true, I dare say, Fitch; but a decision of that sort would mean more to me than you'd believe if I were to tell you. The beggarly twenty-five thousand's all I have, and I want to sleep with it under my pillow a couple of months at least before I drop it into a slot.""You 'll drop it into Harding & Offdean's mill to grind out the pitiful two and a half per cent commission racket; that 's what you 'll do in the end, old fellow—see if you don't.""Perhaps I shall; but it's more than likely I shan't. We 'll talk about it when I get back. You know I'm off to north Louisiana in the morning"—"No! What the deuce"—"Oh, business of the firm."

One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing a conversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted."There's big money in it, Offdean," said the elder of the two. "I would n't have you touch it if there was n't. Why, they tell me Patchly 's pulled a hundred thousand out of the concern a'ready.""That may be," replied Offdean, who had been politely attentive to the words addressed to him, but whose face bore a look indicating that he was closed to conviction. He leaned back upon the clumsy stick which he carried, and continued: "It's all true, I dare say, Fitch; but a decision of that sort would mean more to me than you'd believe if I were to tell you. The beggarly twenty-five thousand's all I have, and I want to sleep with it under my pillow a couple of months at least before I drop it into a slot.""You 'll drop it into Harding & Offdean's mill to grind out the pitiful two and a half per cent commission racket; that 's what you 'll do in the end, old fellow—see if you don't.""Perhaps I shall; but it's more than likely I shan't. We 'll talk about it when I get back. You know I'm off to north Louisiana in the morning"—"No! What the deuce"—"Oh, business of the firm."

set up her literary recognition with brief stories about existence in rural Louisiana at some stage in the past due 19th century. The stories gathered in Bayou Folk gift remarkably vivid snapshots of each day The creator who these days is probably quality acknowledged for her novel The Awakening first of all life in a now vanished world. Many of them spotlight the members of the family between blacks and whites in a society in which the rules of engagement nevertheless meditated the entrenched patterns of slavery a few many years after the Civil War.As she became in advance of her time concerning women’s rights, Chopin was also farsighted about race relations. Perhaps the story “Desiree’s Baby” about the delivery of a mixed-race toddler to 2 “white” dad and mom fine expresses the uneasy courting between blacks and whites within the vintage South, and its strict codes against miscegenation.Chopin’s gifts for capturing the dialects of the location and for telling a compelling tale in memorable vignettes provide the reader with a richly profitable experience.

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