New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-26

him as if from one of his nendCant clients, but 1t
produced no effect. i had given up all hope, when,
one night, sitting sick and sad in my bedroom,
racked with the rheumatism, the door was suddenly
opened the weknown quaint Fl CURE in black walked
in without any formality, and with cheerful Well
boy, how are you x and the bland sweet smile, e1
tended the two fingers. They were eagerly clutehed
of course, and from that hour we were firm friends
39 Hood.
The Haunted Moose.
A friend of ours, says the Albany Tribune, Bob
H, during the late cold term, thought he would go
into Hamilton and have a moose hunt. He left the
city, in company with six other gentlemen, on Wed
nesday of last week. After ride of about twenty
four hours, they reached the edge of the great will
derness Having put up their horses and sleigh at the
last tavern they started out for weeks sport in the
woods The second day in the wilderness our friend
and party started moose of first class proportions.
They sighted him about noon, and kept his track
till about 8 o'clock, P. NJ, when the party informed
Bob that Che were completely tired out, and they
intended to take the back track for the shanty and
have dinner @0a
Our friend said g Very we'll go back if you please.
As for me, I'll have that moose or perish in the at
tempt y The party went back and Bob went ahead
He kept up the chase till nearly dusk, when he got
sufficiently near the eritter to give him condign
He was glorious fellow. Like Frank Granger,
six feet high and well proportioned' Bob was
Tejoiced at his success But his pleasure had one
drawback 8 what could he do with him Another
source of uneasiness the excessive cold and the
distance from the shanty, some eight miles While
phosophizng upon his folly, night came on, and as
there was nosuch thing as getting up fire, he was
at his wits end to keep from freezing Atlast he hit
upon an eXpedicnt. .-....
He cut Open the moose, took out its entrails, and
crawled in and lay down. The animal heat kept
him as warm as pepper sass till about midnight,
when he fell asleep. He aWoke about sunrise and
thought he would crawl out and start back to his
friends. There was one pull back to this arrange
ment. After the heat had left the moose, he had
frozen as stiff as post, an operation that subjected
Bob to rigid confinement as If he had been locked
up in Bastile. Bob endeavored to cut his way out
with a knife But it was no go. He might as well
have undertaken to wtittle granite Bob spent a
most melancholy day. and finally worried nature into
| q sound sleep.
While thus unconscious, a company of hunters
came along discovered the moose fastened rope to
| his legs, and set about dragging him out OF the
woods. The movement awakened Bob, who thought
he was getting haunted, and, therefore, commenced
hallooing for help. Such noise coming from dead
moose, excited the superstition of the hunters to
| such degree that they abandoned their prize and
fled asif the devil was after them. After running
about three miles they met Bob's friends, who had
been out all day trying to discover his whereabouts
The hunters told the story of the haunted moose and
the strange noise which came from his abdomen.
| Bobs friends smiled ais. :.
| They requested Lle hunters 10 TetuEH LII u udll
hour the haunted moose was reached. The friends
| halloed Bob!' Bob holloed here! The friends
said: we are going to cut look out for the axe,
Bob said let driye-better have damaged head
than legs made of icecices.' The adventure has "a
made an impression on Robert. He says next time he
sleeps inside moose he will take good care that it
! has leather hinges on its back. n
During the search instituted by the editor Of the
Newark Times for female compostors, tits reported
| that the following short dialogue took place.
Printer Good morning Mr.. Henpeck, have you
got any daughters that would make good type
setters"
Henpeck-.No, but I've got wife that would
make a very fine devil"
SMART CHAps.-We have very smart boys in th:
town {says cotemporary)- in particular, wht
was called up the other day by the pedagogue to give
some account of his absence, and to give some evi
dence, if possible, of progress in his studies.
"Where were you yesterday
al was out in the field alone"
sWhat were you doing in the field, sir? Picking
berries?"
81 was meditating,'
'Medtating upon what2"
i 81 was meditating what I'd be when got to b
erowed up--prnter doctor, lawyer, or schoolmaster
! and took the field for it,"
"Brave boy? What was your conclusionm
? Thought as how I'd be schoomaster: they live
easy-likes to give lickens and teach the young de
: what to shoot att"
L.
: view some time since, assumed the somewhat move
position that alcohol is food and offered the folowin
! logic in proof, viz
$ =. Food is force,
Y Alcohol is force
Z al5 Therefore, alcohol is food"
Another writer offered the following pungent sylt
s gism, as equally legitimate and conclusive, viz:
4 f. " Horse feed is force
e Whipping a horse is force
J., | .,- Therefore, whipping horse is horse teed"'
. Should any of our readers hear Pennsylvania wa
a. hAya-t1lk Hhmt
whip lash y the force of the above will become ev
dent ~.
q DEEP ROOTED PREJUD1CE.-A Yankee, Boosting
his inyeterate hatred OF everything Brltsh IS lVr
). in neighboring city with coonist family. He taxi
il every opportunity to have slap at brother Bull an
the colonst does what he to defend the venerab
|. gentleman.
!, You are arguing (sad the colonist) against you
IF ancestors .gp
q +" NoI'm not"
ii "Who was your father?"
p. ga Yankee .I.
h Who were your forefathers?"
Z" Yankees"
ID ''Who was Adam and Eve"
lie '"Yankees, by thunder"
10 ,.5 ,s
r Too UGLY TO LrvE.-In the eastern part of d.
al aware county, in-State, q short time SINCE tine
Is resided man by the name Of B., now Justice
ly the Peace, and very sensible man, but by comma
ID consent the ugiest looking individual in the who
Isl county, being long, gaunt gallow, and awry, with
% gait like a kangaroo. One day he was hunting, al
Se on one of the mountain roads he met man on TO
0, and alone, who was longer gaunter gglier BY ::
e, and beat him. Without saying word B, rails
his gun and deliberately leyeled it at the strang
@ :. For Gods sake don't shoot" shouted the man
yn great alarm. Stranger replied B" swo
IN ten years ago. that If ever met ugfer thar
lip was, I'd shoot him, and you are the first one L
mt SEEM The stranger after takinga careful survey