La Marmotteuse dramatization

File: doucettejoe-oh-marmotteuse.mp3

JD: La Marmoteuse? The origin of that is, There's an old couple that lived in the country like this, and there was a Bingo in the village. They played Bingo. The old lady she liked to play Bingo, and the old man didn't want to go, see?

KP: Yeah.

JD: So this evening there was a special Bingo with a lot of money, she wanted to go, and no chance of goin'. She didn't like to ask him. Ao at last about when it was time, she did. Now he was smokin his pipe looking out of the window. ANd she went behind him, touched him on the shoulder, you know, to get his attention. And she started it.

Doucette plays high turn of La Marmoteuse

JD He never let on he heard her. Never looked. So she asked him the second time.

Plays high turn a second time

JD He turned around and looked at her.

Plays low turn of La Marmoteuse

JD It was him that answered there, see? (laughs)

KP: So who get the best of it?

JD: She didn't go to Bingo that night, I'll tell you. (laughs)