New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-27

you End ten chances it viii be reekinx with
he pollution Of thousand fset) andh the weather. Is
old and nasty you ziu order Gre The wood (yoa don't
urn cos) !. brought up IN little fsggots, and is
not sold to you By the stb .oty bat By the basket
all They have another fashion Of having doors
n the walls. sometimes b. Of them IN . space
is by 90 in which you cted put any thing you
nay happen 10 possess 10 lape Of dry goods. They
nave q suspicious look sbo utterly repuguant To
your ideas Of weorder stss, and you believe there
are bed bugs other feroo animals In them--and
there are IL il an Enzsnanfs privilege to grurnbe,
sud why should not Americana They go srumbHns
from end Of Europe the the other with their check
srsd ilsetng dresses huggng shout them their huge
rSvelng shawis their vhskers and round red
'ses looking very much like Of their puddings
ere is t@ken out Of the bag You may know so Eng
shman " three things He always dresses Iandshy
ne always kps tight grasp bis purse thinking every
thing Is enormously dear, and always eostrsdiets you
when he possibly DO sowith regular DR.. johnson
Ike air a. though that v the concuson Of the whole
nation You have doubtless heard Of the John Bull who
aever could 60 to sleep in p~ses without raising his
window every time the wstchmsn passd under calling
tweive ecock" and baIling out il snot O'Clock
Sou rascal 1t wants FIVE minutes Of it's Hs type
II this race Poor Mr. Crapeaud knows not What to make
4 him. All the widest, most improbable stories about
The eecentctties Of Enghmen rife in France, and
readily swallowed BY the mas Of the people Here is
that IL making great noise in Paris anu 1t h
.sid to be an actual occurrence you judge. s1
edward is the hero Of the tale and he Ia said be
wealthy his tastes and habits ors and extrsv-
giant He engaged celebrated French pianist long
nce, to entertain with his talent large and brilliant
oary he about to give at his hotel in the Rue st.
donor The evening round and did the musician.
on being usered into the drawing he found four
five people already arrived On ottoman In the farther
md Of the room seated lady magnncentIy Dressed
vhom eir Edward immediately ineredseed the pianist
IS Lady T., my wife" Not the slightest bend OF the
ead any other acknowledgement the Iadys part
followed the introduction And thisn continued the
obieman turning TO smother lady seated st tsbls and
ttentively engaged In perung the iast novel, which sy
open before her. this h my aster the Honorable Miss H.
she Is great reader snd frequsptiy s up very ate
ngaged in her fsvorite occupation Ths poor artist
bowed with true freuchmans grace but his sautation
taken just much notice Ct as his previous one
~This" purrued the polite Sir Edward pointing gen
.eman seated at another table shading his brow with his
hand and intsntiy easins upon the squares Of chess
board. this is the greatest chesspsyer in England
| an happy to Be the smsdium 0 your aequaintanee.r
Not Q nod, not the movement Of q muscls Indicated
hat the great chepayer conscious the presence
of stranger. To ssy that ths pssr pisuis in
n.r at this brutal reception would but half expse his
feelings Of modification and astonishmenf But theaght
he to hin ss there probably some mystery connected
with this Of reception that will be cleared
up-in the .uesntime perhaps shall have better sue
csss with the urth party, and he looked inquitivey
tall gentleman ,tanding BY neighboring eonsol and
agssed in scsntn the ordor Of manfcent csme-
las in vases Of ssv-es porcelain aAh ~ said Sir e.
tvinne his wishes and In anticipating them
You will allow me to present TO you this, my
innate friend the viseount R.. He twice saved my
life in India but his many high qualities Of head and
heart needed not you, this additional motive to
| the high esteem in which hold him" Again the
Frenchman bowed and again his bow returned with
the same incivity-that ID, not rsturnsd ct all sir
Edward therefore, fearing perhaps too hasy dinswe-
% led the pianist up to the piano and entreated him to
favor him with an exhibition of his skill He complied
4ad selected piece Of his own conposton. It hap
psDed that the piano exactly opposite the ottoman
on which the lady to whom he had arst been intro
ducsd His fingers flying over the keys at q
great rate when suddenly he noticed the iadys handksr
chief drop He sprang forward with all Fr.nchnan,
gaAntry pick it up and restore it. but his
may be conceived when he discovered that the bcaut
fuI lady nothing more NOR less than He turned
survey the others-they were waxths novel reader
the chess player, and the man aux Cameiias" He be
gan to suspect that Sir Edward himself not exactly
what he represented himself be- when that gentleman
to his relief by assuring him that the real COMPANY
yet to arrvethat these statues were only figures
Of his friends then dead That, nnaly he carrie
them round with him wherever he went, kept sewers
servants for other purpose than to wait tem,
always treated them with every possible mark of respect
. Such is o Frepchmans idea Of an Englishmau B.