Tophile lived across de bayou from Clarence who he don like at all.  Dey all de time yell across de bayou at each other.  Tophile would yell at Clarence “If I had a way to cross dis bayou, I’d come over dere an beat you up good, yeah.”

Dis went on for years. Finally de state done built a bridge across dat bayou right by dere house.

Tophile’s wife, Philoman, said, “now is your chance. Why don’t you go over dere an beat up Clarence like you say?”

Tophile said, “OK” and started walking across de bridge but he see a sign on de bridge. So he turned around & went back home.

Philoman say, “Why you back so soon?”

Tophile said, “Mais ah don changed mah mind about beat up Clarence.  You know, he don look near dat big when I yell at him from across de bayou., but dey got a big sign on dat bridge dat say … CLARENCE..13 ft 6 in”.

Submitted by Effron Savoy