New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-16
Nsh OrIeans DaiIp Ctssfsnt.


4 At Rafsrpaa Hotel
/ The following ii from the last ef the \ Uneons.
merciaI Traveller !, papers Of Charles Dickens.
You are going off by railway, from any terms-
! mus. You have twenty minutes for dinner before
you 90. You want your dinner. and. lfke Dr. JOHN
mind pStare Of he Refreshments table al that Ger
| minus. The conventional shabby evening hearty,
supper-sccepted as the model for all ternninf and
all Refreshments stations, because it Is fhe last REL
past known to this state OF existence Of which apys
human creature would partake but III THE direct
extremity sickens yonr Contemplation, and your
words are these: can not dine on stale sponge
cakes that turn to saHd IN Che mouth. lean fsS
dine on ahining brown patties, conpossd 81 M
known animals within, and Offering I'd my yiew ths
device of indgestibe star fish III Ieaden pfe-trusk
ernst without can not dine on 4 sandwich lint
has long been pining under an exhausted re-
eeiyer. can not dine on barley.sugar. / can
not dine on Tofee0 You repair TO the nearest
hotel, and arrive, agitated. In the cofIee-rooHi.
1t il most astonishing fact that tie waiter III
very cold to you. account for Ii how you may,
smoothe It over how Jon will, yen cannot denx
that he Is cold to you. He IS not glad to see you
he does not want you; he would much rather yon
hadn't come. He opposes to your flushed eoff
dition an immovable composure, All II this WERE
mot enough another waiter, born NJ II would SEEM
expressly 70 look at you in this passage Of your
der bis arm and his hands folded, looking at yoa
With all his might YoH impress on your waiteE
mat you have ven minutes for dinner, and he pros
poses that Jon shall begin with bit Of fish which
VIII be ready in twenty That proposal deelinsds
he suggezts ~ neat originality IS wenI Or corr
| mon outlet You close with either outlet. anx
| outlet, anything, He goes, ieisnrely, behind 3
/ door and calls down some unseeM shaft ven&
tTiloquial dialogue ens1es tending GnaIy u te ef-
feet that veal only b available On he sytr 81 Ii
moment. Yon anxiousiy call out, 6 Veal, then q
Your waiter. having settled that point rssnrns II
array your tabie-cioth with table napkin, foIde6
cooked hat wise (si0WIy. for something OUT 6f M
window engages his eyed a white vine Gins =
green wine-glass, blue finger glass tumh1sx
and a powerful battery of fourteen casters With
nothing in them, or, at all events-whic IS enough
for your purposes with nothing IN them thatH1
/ come ont. sSS sssaaxs
an air Of mental comparison and curiosity, now, as
| il it had occurred to him that you are ike hfs
brother. Halt your time gone, and nothing come
but the jug of ale and the bread you impiore vo1r
waiter to zee after that entIet, waiksr pray do
He cannot 80 at once, for he Is carrying III seveu-
teen pounds Of American cheese for you to hni7a
with and small landed estate az celery and watsr
cress The other waiter changes his leg, and takes
q new vieT OF you doabtfnlly, now, a. II he had
rejected the resemblance TO lis brother and h&l
begun 70 think you more Ike his aunt or his grand
mother. Again you beseech your waiter uitlEh
pathetic Indignation, to see after that cutletp,
He steps ont to see after it, and by and by, when
i you are going away without it, comes with n
4 Even then he viii not take the shamsslyer cover
off without pause for flourish, and to look ~
the mnsty outlet as II he were surprised to see IT,
which cannot possibly be the case. he must haze
seen it SO otter before. A sort Of fur has betn
produced upon its surface by the cooks art ana
| in sham,silyer vessel, staggering on two INT
instead of three, n eutaneOns kind Of sauce. 0f
brown pimples and picked cucumber.
You order the bill, but your waiter CAM not bring
yodr bill yet, because he IS bringing instead three
hinty hearted potatoes and two grim head of broc-
coli, like the occasional ornaments on area raj
lings, badly broiled. You know that you win never
come to this pass, any moro than to the cheese ard
celery, and you imperatively demand your bill;
but it takes time to get, even when gone for, be-
cause your waiter has to communicate with q lady
who lives behind sash window In d corner, and
who appears to have 10 refer To several Ledgers BE-
fore she can make It outs If you had been staying
there year. You become distracted to get away,
and the other waiter, once more changing bis leg,
stll looks atyou--but suspiciously now, as II y6u
had begun to remind him of the party who toek
the great coats last winter. Your bill et LAST
brought and paid, at the rate Of sixpence mouth
full, your waiter reminds you that attendance is
not charged for single meal, and you have TO
| search in all Jour pockets for a sixpence mofe.
He has worse opinion of you than ever when Ven
have given it to him, and let's you out into the
street with the air Of one saying TO himself az ydu
can not doubt no is, = hope We shall never see
vau AGAIN u e5ssf