Down Yonder on the Bayou contains three exciting short stories, with each story having its own beginning and ending. The setting is south Louisiana, down in Cajun country. The main characters are Petro and Dudro Bolepean, two little Cajun brothers. All three stories have some Cajun dialect and a few Cajun names. The book also has a vocabulary listing of some Cajun dialect and a few Cajun names.