The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-25
The Fast Men on the GENTLY Road.
The following letter to the New York Spirit of
the Times has excited so much attention here that
we publish it in full

The following letter to the New York Spirit Of
the Times has excited so much attention here thai
we publish it in full
New ORLEANS. LA. April IS, 1919.
Mr. SPIRIT do you ever go a-ndlng | see that
several Of your late numbers contain Boot. Jacks
O. WI, hen So 5s
paper ayouIs be without some account of what our fast
Suppose We too, ride out little Well, saddle up. and
e be oft on our paceT-ths only saddle horse BY the by
nor rackes any longer fashionable with Us.
Here we then, upon the Old Bayou Road the scene
Plague the dust for Blinds one sn
1u sf5S good ssw Of me pretty faces Which belong
IL now we are upon the Gen'lIy Road leading to the
sight old abandoned race course The fence. a1e
nearly gone. and the stands that WHOM held beauty and
o and Tno e
than stands We'll peace to their ashes and green
grow the grass upon Them az well as upon the graves of
But what have here Phebus what pair The
with him c.. not Paul Of that name and OF whom Bu.
we wtG ps sueh an S but George
Who are these that follow Ladies, by all that's lovely
Let's putt up take look at them as they pass Phew
there goes the dust completely obscurng VISION
This not considered ecundum artum in our young
horse we'll for the purpose Of conversing with her as to be
ready aid her Of accidents But tempora mutant'
paeeis and seke each beau has his E!b Of blood
iafh They neither sa nor speed As for the
be SO badly mounted We oye the ladies God bless
a.
emen s wish To- the Of me dear creatures in their
Oh that the who aks front Of the Doctor house
DE- IA 1e hs
has been seized with Juror for attending Rev DR.. HIS
e MIS- there "
da% A. ad Mh
il close carriage dIaw9 by paiI Of 6 bays
and and never DEBT: The other much better fellow
the NJ Of
pesb % oss H and in such s he could
BE-, s ,SSa that la he fool 6eass
take that, provided your name i not MI '''''
A@ Here they Hy oom Nal all in crowd aa There
jerusalem then have the rh Ceois Mr. M and
resemble very much in that eacaure upon
oosfaeys sle have 10. f John , as
Ross e Bs wSy b SsS%s
Fl. s With f b! Ess Hs
Thank God that crowd i past and now see how we'll
look uSa III HsG !ofS
and proud T S by her
Whew there goes old Virginia gentleman in his bug
gy with his taseed boots and his white head Just as
we MI. M of Richmond. whose lovely daughter was
couple of back married to of creoss of the
city
HALO there! What in the devil you at? You'll run
over some of with carnage All puff Of wind
clears the dust for moment and the
prince of good fellows with his bouncing blacks attached BY
,ab What turn OUT and how they travel three
minute lick near Well success to him for he deserves
t. he has climbed from the bottom of the ladder of fortune
10 near its upperm0st round without wrong and if
he now has cotton press plantation and the fastest
ace horse in the world who will envy him Surely hon.
est man
Night throws her sable around u.s. and we can
no so let US home and out OF the confound
ed dust.
As ride out frequently, may now and then tell You
'ou. II it suits yog shall hear again from,
youE friend, r. !