New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-03
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3'f4 8 or AI.DERSAeH. IL
S~srs ago, two Englishmen one !.
adernach. They went to an y y
81 man Of the name Of Du d
lred ID have his best apart :
nat deal Of money. relished the
.;etched kitchen, and thought
inc perfectly genuine. !, From :
= / ing supposed they would CON
IN and proceed to the capital;
Z; ||1sd come merely to see Alder
s.Ioea too absurd to enter any
ON continuing their journey,
II the capital, they did not even
tI|ss worth seeing at Andernach !
Aor out now and then to shoot
ns close at home, eating, drink
Z IL y spies,,, thought the host. Scr
%. No matter, what is that to
ikittinr in an evening over pint
5sr and relation, the grocer, they |
~ brains about the mysterious
5ies,. said the grocer; zone q
18th his left eye. $500
~ squint without being 9 spy
lat; tsI should take them Tor run
read all my newspapers, for the
H sements. /"
an then assured him that all Eng
d At least q twelfth part Of their
~ newspapers. The conclusion to
ierally came was, that as the said
5||Ise apparently neither spies nor
1||Isy could not possibly be any thing
M latter rested. In this opinion pn
ii I more confirmed, when, at Of the
! II weeks, one of his guests, an elderly
AZ dressed him:
4, said he, &c we like your house I;
' X ! acouiesce in certain whim, 1t IS
FL ||E 20 might continue for q long time
4lIE money with you. NJ
gH Tors have only to give your com
s;ifnkeeper is, by profession, the slave
III inns that throng to him from all the
1I55 Of the globe
n u, to be sure," continued the Eng
S|shad q prodigiously large beast
Blltour sign; but your house is only
inns; ii scarcely contains three
oms, and unfortunately they look
N et We are fond Of rest; we want
Il Four Waterman has q very iouo
'|ilthe coaches roll the whole night
\ rect, 50 as to make the windows rat
AXE every quarter Of an hour =
VI ana fall asleep again to be walked 7
\ after Of an hour. You must admil
\ blow. this is enough to destroy on
)5texhaust our patience.
Sp hrugged his shoulders. : HOW ca
1Ess, 4
I1o sily,n replied the stranger; !, {
a.afraid of q little expense in whlc
( adalyes, without requiring at our &c
Ei,e smallest compensation.
.. whose barren field had, since u
! the Englishmen, been daily fertilize
over Of guineas, promised TO 90 3
lfn his power to satisfy his worth
iht be could not help the rafting
'hs and believing Of the Waterman. /,
al is it necessary answered Z Z
6 Behind your house you have 2 Il
D., though you are no lover OF garae,
Except little parsley for your =, soup
i nothing in it but nettles. The o
|talI. too, in spite Of its thickness,
IN to tumble. Suppose you were
Of this space to run up little pull
i Of pleasure-house, even II IT were
FL more than couple of rooms.
i supported by the old wall, by viii
pnsiderable part of the expense wou
a and the wall itself would be propp
Il inst now mentioned, for the sake o
doing. we would willingly detray 9
lthe costs, and when we are gone !
i will be yours. You will then have
ial couple of convenient rooms TO let.
Ither hand, you object to the propoa
! leave you" u;
IA. however, had not the least OBJ
ough he thought within himself,
d and i were right enough IN conciual
ese people were fools"
Immediately sent for brick layer;
vas examined, and the Englishmen
| what they should like to have &C
md bricks were quickly brought; IN
'alls were run up, the old garden y
the fonrth, from which sloped half n
TIE whole locked more like wood NC
5habitation but the strangers were
and Du Long laughed in his sleeve.
months thus passed in mutual con,e
lden spring flowed abundantly, though
rev worse and worse every day.
seldom quilted their \
here they ate, drank and read the p
j. The only thing that surprised
nd of the Golden Elephant was, tina
Ike Of nocturnal repose they had bu
for themselves, and that now he very
we'd q light the whole night throug
once conjeetured they might be cor
) all the money they spent passed thr'
lnds, and their guineas, after q most {
animation, were always found to be {
Insman and he had again no other alte
han to set them down for fools.
Z fine day in autumn he saw them g
their guns slung over their shoul
told him they were going to take
sion of snipe- shooting, and took lea
for three days. The three days passed
d the fourth, but the strangers Oh
3 their appearance.
| the fifth Du Long shook his head
/ his kinsman began to shake ms ais
seventh this suspicious circumstanc
municated 10 the police; and on the {
deserted habitation was broken opeI
the formalities of law. On the taoi
ID d billet, the contents of which were
i;
Dear Landlord: Not long since we y
innate as to discover, in chest OF old
It's, deeds that proved that one OF our
formerly possessed at Andernach q
se. on the site of which three houses 81
sent; yours is one Of the three. Wh
estor was obliged to flee, he buried h
silver at the foot Of thick wall, "
/ IN existence. Among his papers we
which afforded satisfactory informal
citing the situation of the building.
We Immediately repaired to Anderna'
Xiv found a public house on the spo
esting to us; we took lodgings in
lined every thing, and concerted meas
Ia possession of our lawful inherltant
exciting notice. In what manner
we'd all obstacles is we'll known to yot
me great hole, and the empty irol
,ich YOU will find under the wall in ou
r, are proofs that we have been SUI
! make you present Of the chest, an
u to fill up the hole, and 70 give you
rther concern about us; all inquire
vain, as the names we went by w
sumed-Farewell."
The landlord of the Golden Elephal
1 avr,. ,an,,th He