New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-29
THE DAILY CRESCENT,
The Inqusitive YANKEE

gentleman riding in an Eastern railroad
car, which was rather sparely supplied with
passengers observed in the seat before him
lean, slab.sIded Yankee, every feature Of
whose face seemed to ask a question: and n
(, little circumstance soon proved that he possessed
a most s'inquirng mind . Before HIM, occu
pying the entire seat, sat lady dressed in deep
black; and after shifting his position several
times, and nannngering to get an opportunity
ia look in her face, he at length caught her eye
He nodded Familiarity to her, and asked her,
with nasal twang utterly incable of imitation,
In aflction"
'' Yes, Sir" responded the lady.
"Pa-rcnts father or mother ~
No sir sail the lady.
Child, perhaps "A boy or gal -
No, sir, not child, was the response, II
haze nj children
Husband then, 'xpect'"
ea,' was the curt answer
Ham: cholery "a trndn man, meb5e s.
My husband was seafuring man, the can.
Trim of vessel; he didn't die Of cholera: he
was drowned"
=, Oh, drowned, eh =" pursued the inquistor.
hesitating for brief instant ''Saye his
cistn he asked
Yes; the vessel was saved, and my hus-
bands effects said the widow
Was they" asked the Yankee as his eyes
frightened up; "pious man +" he continued
He was; q member of the Methodist
Church"
The next question Was little delayed but
it came;
. Don't yeou think you got great cause TO
be thankful that he was pioas man, and saved
his chist 3"
. Do said the widow abruptly, and turned
her head 10 look out Of tho window The indie
fatigablo pump changed his position, held the
window by his glittering eye oEea more,
aud propounded one more query, in a little
lower tone, With his head slightly inclined for
ward over the back Of the seat '' Jqs y0u
raiciatjH' 10 get married again p
Sir" said the widow Indignantly "you
arc Impairment" And she left her seat and
took another on the other side Of the car
= Pears to be a little hutfy = said the in
ettable bore, turning to our narrator, behind
him: 'eshe needn't be mad | didn't want to
hurt her feelin's. Whatdid they make you pay
Tor that umherel you We got in your hand It's
real pooty one "
ANEcDoTE or TWO PARRors curious old
s.ory is told in Captain Browns book, without
any clue to its date its ludicrous tendency
beng the temptation to copy it here:
\ tradesman, who had a shop in the Old
Bailey, opposite the prison, kept two parrots
green and gray. The green parrot was taught
to speak when there was a knock Mt the street
door; tic gray whenever the bell rarg hut
they only knew two short phrases Of Enq'islr
The house in which they lived had an ol5 .;,s-
Tened protesting front, that the hrst fam
could not be gsen from the pavement gu tue
same side Of the way and, on one occasion,
they were left outside the window by themselves,
when some one knocked at the street door.
- Who's there said the green parrot
:. The man with the leather was the reply.
10 which the bird answered
''0h oh -
The door not being opened, the stranger
knocked secoud time.
Who's there z" said green poll.
Who's there exclaimed the man & why
don't you come down
50 Oh oh" repeated the parrot.
This 50 enraged the stranger that he rung
the bell furiously
- Go to the gate said a new voice, which
belonged to the gray parrot.
6 To the gate = said the man, who saw no
such entrance, and who thought the servants
we're bantering him. g What gate" he asked
stepping back to view the premises
: New gatc!' responded the gray, Just as
the angry applicant discovered who had been
answering his summons