New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-09

| hearted man, only O little grnff IN his way, and
laughs 1T his cearse abuse as If were only joke,
| as he tells Bertha it is. And the blind girl be-
comes enamored OF the imaginary good man, the
| fancied benefactor Of her father and this passion
is discovered when at a Christmas dinner at Ca
lebs cottage, where all the ard,aats persona are,
she learns that Tacketon is about to be married to
May Fielding, Miss Goulaoek) whose mother Girs.
Chapman) is reduced in circumstances in con
sequence of disaster in the indigo trade hence
urges the match
Here is the picture of Caieb's cottage room, just
as it is given on the stage, and Of the finest
and most elaborate scenes of the kind ever got up
in o theater:
There were various other samples Of his handi-
| craft besides Dolls, in Caleb Plummers room.
| There were Noah's Arks, in which the birds and
beasts were an uneommonly tight ut, assure You +;
though they could be eramnled in, any how, at the
roof, and ratified and shaken into the smallest
compass. BY bold poetical license, most Of these
| Noah's Arks had knockers on the doors: incon-
slstent appendices perhaps, suggestive Of morn
ING callers and Postman, yet pleasant finish 70
the outside of the building. There were scores OF
melancholy little carts which, when the wheels
| went round, performed most doleful music. Many
small fadles drums, and other instruments Of tor
| hire; no end OF cannon, shields, swords, spears
and guns. There were little tumbers in red
4 breeehes, incessantly swarming up high obstacles
OF red tape, and coming down, head first, upon
the other side; and there were innumerable old
gentlemen Of respectable, not to say venerable APP
pearanee insaney flying EVER horizontal pegs, in
serted, for the purpose, in their own street doors.
There were beasts of all Sorts horses in partcu-
| lar, of every breed; from the spotted barrel on
four pegs, with small tippet for name, to the
thoroughbred rocker on his highest mettle.
AS it would have been hard to count the dozens
| upon dozens of grotesque figures that were ever
ready 70 commit all sorts of absurdities, on the
turning Of D handle; 50 it would have been no
easy task to mention any human folly, vice, or
weakness, that had not its type, immediate or re-
mote, in Caleb Puntmer's room. And not in an
exaggerated form; for very little handles will
move men nc and women to as strange performances
as any Toy was ever made to undertake.
In the midst Of all these objects Caleb and his
daughter sat at work. The blind girl busy as a
doll dressmaker; and Caleb painting and glazing
she e four-pair front Of desirable family mansion.
me care imprinted in the lines of Caleb's face,
and his absorbed aud dreamy manner, which would
have sat well on some alehemst Or abstruse stu
dent, were at first sight odd contrast to his oc-
eapatlon and the tfiyialites about him. But tri.
VIAL things invented and pursued for bread become
very serious matters of fact; and, apart from this
consideration, am not at all prepared to say, my
SELF that II Caleb had been lord chamberlain Or
member Of parliament, or lawyer, or even a
great Spectator, he would have dealt in toys one
whit less whimsical; while / have a very great
doubt whether they would have been as harmless.
These are the characters, and the play moves on
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s ,a, s0enes Ml'h poverty ana ms aIhieted
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story says
IL was bacchanalian song something about a
sparkling bowl; and he sang it with an assumption
OF deyil-lnay-care voice, that made his face
thousand times more meagre and more thoughtful
than ever.
Edward reveals his name In LITTLE Dot ,vbor, te
lno,y AZ ala 49,. ~ =, Nv
= ~ a,.'ei p'euss VI 7esEess lhth they
can outwit old Tacketon, and she suffers the agony
Of having secret from John, and John detects her
IN private conversation with tbe orr, so;,a
,ois ~, 49,, s'i~ N''''s 7''''ot' ny
ro'us ief manu- ms afsulse OF gray wig removed
Trouble is in the household, and the cricket is
silent. John suffers dreadfully but fort;vee bis
little Wife in bis nu,,, hoar+ al Iaa4
~ q; = ~ 80 sotsiueti's tiias
ny - ~ Aich otaef ana gu mat; That she Is not to
blame for being unable to love him. There are
terrible times generally and exciting scenes, and
finally all is cleared up; for on the day on which
Old Iaekleton and gentle May are to be married.
Edward gets to church little ahead Of the ogre
bridegroom and marries May instead. Johns
aud Dots and everybody happiness is As great as
thef previous misery, and they were all in storm
Of giee IN Dots cottage, when the disappointed
bridegroom comes IN wifeess fr0n the church.