Andrew Chautin;

Bird Nest: Reminiscences about Valerie (Valéry) 'Pop' Mayer and Prohibition:
-Mayer gets job at the sawmill putting smoke in a sack because no one else would do it. Easy to leave it outside of the sack, harder to put it in;
-Faire comme s'il a coupé son doigt. La femme du bougre voulait qu'ils se dépêchent à l'hôpital. Il n'a pas répondu son téléphone pour deux jours;
-Mayer as bread salesman. Route in a Model-T Ford, in 1933 during the Depression. 5 gallons of used oil. Bruler 5 gallons par jour dessus une route de 100 miles;
-Mille pains par jour, il aurait eu un nouveau truck;
-Andrew Chautin as bread salesman. 700-800 pain par jour;
-Il n'avait plus de pain l'après-midi, il en avait besoin d'autre;
-Il avait un nouveau truck la prochaine fois qu'il arrivait à Lafayette;
-Mayer as bread salesman (barters bread for eggs, chickens, shoes, saddle...), bartering. Il vendait 200-300 pains. Lalonde et O.J.? LeBlanc;
-Ramasser le vieux pain, et vendre du nouveau;
-Vendre le plus de pain. Il achetait des souliers pour le monde. Barguinner du pain pour des souliers ou du gas. Une selle à Arnaudville de $27 avec du pain;
-14 pains par jour. 25-30 pains par jour jusqu'à la selle était payée;
-Acheter les oeufs un sous plus que les autres la douzaine;
-20 sous asteur est comme 5 sous;
-Il n'était pas éduqué, mais il était farce;
-On the road to Cecilia. People were picking cotton, made anisette - (Mayer feigned sorrow). People came to see what was wrong;
-Coucher les enfants ensemble quand il avait 10 ans. Waking Andrew in the night because he was snoring. Mayer making as if he was sleeping;
-Watching Mayer through a crack in the door and catching him waking Andrew up at night;
-Jouer des niches toute sa vie;
-Il buvait;
-His grandfather's picture;
-Andrew making whiskey during the Depression and Mayer buying it. Half a mile from the house;
-Gilbert just before his lung operation. About 50 years old. He was sober when he was smart, but alcohol did something to him;
-Mayer bought 20-30 gallons to sell it in Lafayette;
-Andrew and Mayer going to sell whiskey in Opelousas in a Model '32 Chevrolet;
-Not wanting to get him (his brother-in-law) in trouble, but keeping him safe because he was driving drunk;
-Escaping the revenue men. 20 stills paid to protect in the woods. 3 shots fired meant they had plenty of time to hide everything. 3 shots and 2 shortly after meant an emergency and to hide asap;
-Tracks in the mud he didn't recognize. Riding horse;
-Getting caught by the revenue man who was hiding. The horse was nervous and could sense something was wrong. Escaping through the woods by horse (jumping logs, running through briars);
-Andrew was caught once in 1939 (emprisonned for 8 months?) and went into the service for 1941;
-Mayer never got caught that Andrew knows of;
-Mayer and Edwin (Andrew's brother) in Monroe - getting caught and escaping. 4 gallons of whiskey by bus. Prices of buying and selling alcohol. Made enough money to buy a Studebaker. Mayer put in prison in Monroe. Mayer and another man escaped to the woods and flagged down a ride as far as they would take them. -They stayed escaped for a week;
-Charlie Thibodeaux, Sheriff in Opelousas. He lied to the Monroe police to protect Mayer. Thibodeaux supported his community, even if it wasn't right;
-Fining people. Federal police came in;
-Mayer made a lot of money and drank it and gave it away;
-Barry 12 years old going to see him for Easter and listening to him tell stories on a washtub in the yard;

Menteries;
-A man traveling cross-country. His truck broke down with about 20 blacks hiding in back of the truck; Wrecked a telephone pole;
-Enterrer tous les nègres. Ils ont dit un tas des affaires avant ils sont morts, mais ils mentaient;
-Making up stories himself and putting stories together;
-One day he was selling bread and was coming up the road. $2 every Saturday when they paid you. Meyer would give $2?;
-Meyer riding with Andrew with his bottle. Got to a house and a lady thought she saw someone riding with Andrew. Meyer was hiding;
-Barry's mother and her first boyfriend;

***Too many things going on to understand***

-Two hobos;
-Railings too low;
-A moité fou;
-Catching whiskey in the ditch;
-Copper still and a trough;

Andrew Chautin