New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-19

"squibs," contributor Of the Newberry {S. C.)
Rising Sun, thus graphically describes the cpefs d
/" The Crown Diamonds" q rendered By the New
Orleans Opera troupe:
a young Queen, beautiful as the morning. when
it don't rain, wanted double to buy striped hook
so she took the Crown Diamonds and swappsd them
Off for what she wanted. She didn't want Il known,
for small thunder would be raised all over the planta
ton; goes on to the mountains and found some ie
lows who could make money without working Tor il
soft soddered the chief with handsome eyes and good
singing, made him throw dust in mems eyes, and
passed OF a. chiefs niece, IA Catarina. Got the bsnd
Had hole in back psr q hsr garden. leading to the
mountains cTawled through II nearly every day.a
One day storm came on, blow everything p pisces
hole saw light, got down on aI fous and squeezed
| in bad squeeze though come nigh losing the enes
got in among Philistines who shnfed him and turned
| up Jack Thought i Was al up, suns now ~ No
down to sleep holy angels guard my head etc-
Catarins heard him singing, came out Of her hole,
took fancy to him, love at first sight, and made fel
lows let go-had nice little black moustachs. 20
wonder. Wanted to keep him two or three months to
sing for her be wouldn't promise said be wanted
| to 60 home, had to marry his cousin, and al that
but Catarina showed him her little foot with red
bootees on which set them both to singing and let
me down easy, such notes. goodness gwacioas. -
the young lady said how it wains for the sparkling
notes fell right and left singing birds are NO where,
canaries, mocking. Or any other kind, only at to
/ BlOOL
and Miss Hodson against all Of you. And such looks;
little moustache must have had some secret sorrow,
or pain omewhere-he turned red, white, first ON
one foot then on the other, until Catarna thought
he WAS hungry and asked him to take pot luck, COT
fee and biscuits, without cream or butter; you rec
cows couldn't live in the mountains. She handed
coffee to moustache, be took it, tried to keep her
hand felt it all over, counted fingers, smoothed il
out and handed it back; drank coffee, biscuits wasn't
good, didn't eat any Hitched mp chair closer, and
went to work loving, squeezing and signing got too
afectionate, tickled her the wrong way, for she
jumped, told him hands of, made it up, sang little
more kissed hands and parted. All this time cousin
waiting to get married thought she would wait NO
longer, so fell in love with fellow proWling about;
don't blame her either bigger moustache than other
one, two inches long; singing master, too, expect,
for the way be sang day and night thought OF thee
was nobody's business and proved he was prowling
round some time Little one got home, cousins
looked bad, thought they'd take cramp collie every
time they looked at each other, got it myself seeing
them but got over it by looking at and taking some
thing else; concluded to tell each other that their
love was over the left wrong for cousins to marry,
| sin and shame, and their pigs would come to bad
market. Settled 1t by singing its all round my hat
thought it was that. All got happy, long moustache
| particularly, wanted 10 cut OF somebody's head,
afraid to try it though. Queen came home, sent for
lover, everybody come out out to see what was to
pay hard to tell though for all commenced singing,
big punches of flowers falling all around, sticks rap
| ping, hands clapping. made such Q noise that the
curtain fell before they were married"
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