MTH 42

MTH 42-1. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

Annie dreamed that Teddy and Kathleen came to the woods.

So Annie and Jack headed into the Frog Creek woods.

It was cool, rainy dawn.

The Tree House was back.

Teddy and Kathleen were there.

Jack, Annie, Teddy, and Kathleen hugged each other.

Kathleen gave Jack a research book entitled A History of New Orleans Music.

She let the magic flute Jack had played last mission change into a magic trumpet.

And she gave it to Jack and Annie.

Teddy let them know the genius' name whom they will look for, Louis Armstrong.

Jack and Annie started to journey to New Orleans with trumpet and the research book.

 

 

MTH 42-2. Money blues

Jack and Annie wore shirts and trousers with suspenders and bare feet.
The Tree House landed on a palm tree.
There was a wide and busy street outside of the window.
Their research book said Louis Armstrong was born in 1901, and Jazz has a strong beat and lots of feelings.
And it said Louis Armstrong often performed with kid bands and performed on Mississippi riverboats.
Annie decided to ask someone what the date was today.
She and Jack went outside and asked a newsboy and a buttermilk man.
The newsboy told them it was 1915.
The buttermilk man said kid bands were playing Jackson Square in the Frech Quarter.
Jack and Annie tried to take a streetcar as the buttermilk man told.
They didn't have money, but the conductor said there was no fare today.
Because it was the eve of All Saints' Day.
Jack and Annie took it and searched about All Saints' Day in their book.
After reading the book, Annie said All Saints' Day sounded like Halloween.
Annie felt scared, but Jack ignored the story of All Saints' Day.

 

MTH 42-3. Coal Cart Blues

Jack and Annie hopped off the French Quarter.

The conductor let them know the way to Jackson Square.

On the way to Jackson Square, they saw the price and felt it was too cheap.

When they got there, there were small bands of barefoot kids were playing music.

A small girl told them Louis Armstrong was at the River Cafe.

She called Louis Armstrong as Dipper.

Jack and Annie thought Dipper was singing at the River Cafe.

They went to the River Cafe as the small girl told them the way.

But the River Cafe's waiter thought of them as beggars and kicked them out of the cafe because of their clothes and barefoot.

By the cafe, a young teenager wearing clothes like them was putting a bucket and shovel into a coal cart.

He was Louis Armstrong but he had lots of work to do and said goodbye and was gone.

 

 

MTH 42-4. Potato Head Blues

Jack and Annie followed Dipper.

They asked him to work together.

Though Dipper thought it was weird, they decided to work together.

They tossed the coal into tin buckets in the afternoon sun.

Jack was hard and covered in sweat, but Dipper worked cheerfully as whistling and singing.

Three kids that Jack and Annie had seen on Jackson Square called Dipper.

Their name was Little Mack, Happy, and Big Nose.

They asked Dipper to let's sing in the parade but Dipper refused.

The three boys walked off.

Three kids and Dipper used to sing together but Dipper had to work for his family.

Because he loved his family.

Dipper tried to share the pay but Jack and Annie didn't get it.

Dipper rode Jack and Annie to the coal yard.

 

 

MTH 42-5. Go'Long, Mule

Dipper, Jack, and Annie saw the parade on the way coal yard.
There were many people in costume, and musicians include Dipper's fellas Happy, Little Mack, and Big Nose Sidney.
Jack and Annie complimented the musical talent of Dipper.
But he shook his head and kept going on the path.
On the way coal yard, Dipper taught Jack and Annie about music.
Dipper said all sound of folks became music.
When the mule got the coal yard, Dipper said goodbye.
Dipper had to go hauling bananas as his next job.
Jack and Annie followed him to be with him for their mission.
They delivered a lot bunch of bananas to the inspectors until dark.
Suddenly Dipper took off running because a large rat jumped out of the cargo, and Jack and Annie ran after him.
When all three stopped and started laughing.
They shared what they were afraid of, and they felt close to each other than before.
A man was selling umbrellas for a big storm coming soon, while Dipper went to Boss to get their pay.
Dipper tried to share the pay, but Jack and Annie didn't want it.
So Dipper brought them somewhere instead of the pay.

 

MTH 42-6. Find Me at the Greasy Spoon

Jack, Annie, and Dipper came to Bourbon Street.
Dipper left them outside a restaurant Greasy Spoon and then came back with gumbo stew and lemonade.
They shared the food.
After they finished eating, Dipper vanished.
He was washing a mountain of dished alone in the Greasy Spoon instead of paying for dinner.
Jack and Annie helped him.
While washing dishes, Annie asked him, "Your life seems really hard. How do you stay so cheerful?
Dipper answered, "I might not get to have everything. But I get to feel everything."
After finishing washing the dishes, Dipper took them to the River Cafe for dessert.
But rain began to pour down, it began to storm.
They had to find cover.
Dipper's fellas yelled Dipper and they were in a dark building on a corner.
The building used to be Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and it was a haunted place.
Kipper's fellas left there and the storm was stronger.
So Dipper, Jack, and Annie came inside the building.

 

MTH 42-7. Skid-Dat-De-Dat!

The inside of the shop was dark and cold.
So Dipper tried to go outside, but the door handle won't open.
He lit his matches, and Jack found lanterns.
Dipper lit the wicks very carefully.
Sound like a ghost came from the back room.
Jack and Annie were startled, so she started playing the trumpet.
Jack started singing nonsense sounds with all his feeling, telling the ghost to go.
Little Mack, Happy, and Big Nose Sidney were crawling toward the back door.
They made ghost sounds as a joke.
So the trumpet's magic made them push downstairs.
They said they were not afraid of ghosts.
Then, a pirate shape like a ghost came down from the attic.

 

MTH 42-8. Heebie Jeebie

The ghost of Jean Laffitte shouted intimidatingly.
The pirate ghost and the crews floated and growled.
Jack wanted to play the trumpet, but it wasn't a magic one anymore.
Dipper started playing it, and he let his fellas sing.
Jack and Annie drummed on the bucket.
As the trio sang the ghost Laffitte, his crew began dancing.
He danced out of the shop, and his crew followed one by one.
He said to be sure to come back same time next year.

 

MTH 42-9. Working Man Blues

Dipper, Jack, Annie, Dipper's fellas stopped playing and got out of the shop.
Fellas told Dipper to go with them to a riverboat for a gig.
But Dipper refused it.
Fellas left, and Dipper led Jack and Annie to the River Cafe for the dessert.
Dipper went inside and came back with steaming doughnuts.
They shared them, and then Jack and Annie started persuading Dipper to play music again.
But he thought he didn't know how to read music and had to take care of his family.
So Jack took out their research book from his bag.

 

 

MTH 42-10. Thanks a Million

Jack started reading how much Dipper will be a famous Jazz musician in the future.
Dipper didn't trust it at first, but it had been his dream.
He looked at his picture on the cover of the research book for a long time, and he finally decided to do it.
Dipper, Jack, and Annie had to get going because of curfew.
Dipper couldn't hang out with Jack and Annie on the train.
There was discrimination against African Amerian.
Jack and Annie explained one day, everyone will be equal.
Dipper thought it was like a dream, but it was good.
They said goodbye at the corner of St.Peter and Bourbon Street.

 

 

MTH 42-11. Swing that Music