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"blue-fingered" and "lifted" and "shell-heap Cajun for miles around"
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00 'Now Beaumont was what they called froze up. The blue-fingered man who filled my gas tank ...' 02 br
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00 'There lives my old friend Doctor St.Martin, a gentle man, a Cajun who has lifted babies and cured colic among the shell-heap Cajun for miles around.' 02 br
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00 someone to help me with the meaning of that?: 02 br
00 'Now Beaumont was what they called froze up. The blue-fingered man who filled my gas tank ...' 02 br
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00 'There lives my old friend Doctor St.Martin, a gentle man, a Cajun who has lifted babies and cured colic among the shell-heap Cajun for miles around.' 02 br
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00 Thanks, Jo. 0-
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0 Hi Jo, 02 br 02 br 00 This sounds like collquial dialogue, but I'm not sure from where. ) I don't know why the man has blue fingers or if blue-fingered has any type of meaning there. " But honestly, I'm not sure.
- 0 Hi Jo, 02 br 02 br 00 This sounds like collquial dialogue, but I'm not sure from where.
- ) I don't know why the man has blue fingers or if blue-fingered has any type of meaning there.
- " But honestly, I'm not sure.
- 02 br 02 br 00 There used to be someone here who's nickname was BlackSouthernBelle - I think she was from Cajun country.
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0 Hi Jo, 02 br
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00 This sounds like collquial dialogue, but I'm not sure from where. (Although Cajun makes me think Louisianna.) I don't know why the man has blue fingers or if blue-fingered has any type of meaning there. 02 br
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00 I think you can loosely read "the shell-heap Cajun" to mean "the folks around here." But honestly, I'm not sure. 02 br
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00 This sounds like collquial dialogue, but I'm not sure from where. (Although Cajun makes me think Louisianna.) I don't know why the man has blue fingers or if blue-fingered has any type of meaning there. 02 br
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00 I think you can loosely read "the shell-heap Cajun" to mean "the folks around here." But honestly, I'm not sure. 02 br
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0 Beaumont is a city in Texas and is located near the Louisiana border. "Froze up" suggests that the city was experiencing freezing temperatures -- although weather that cold is unusual in there. Possibly the man's fingers looked bluish because they were so cold. 0-
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0 Oh, good call, Amy! My prior boss is FROM Beaumont, so perhaps I could have remembered that, but for someone reason I was thinking of Beamont as a person. I guess that would have been just Bo. 0-
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