New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-06
THE CARPET-BAG.

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+ In our city, unless you dwell on back and
q Hnoss.grown streets, late morning slumbers
Y s.e attended with difficulties.
4 In the Eastern cities q reverberating
d nuisance is the cry of the charcoal man,
ist and the perpetual ringing of the milk mer-
4; chants bell.
os In New Orleans, new and strange devices
"a re adopted to murder morning sleep.
And this is particularly so Oh these plea
u ant Sabbath mornings. A class of men who
n, eem to have in their veins the blood of
every nationality which has known our
Ui, who certainly cannot speak decent En-
e glish. and We suspect are equally deficient
ths 10 the classics of French, Spanish, and
taS CO Portuguese, are clearly banded together to
l'h shock from our souls all mstutinal reposes.
'eS Let US condole together oh victims of this
/ common misfortune, and make worlds
heart ache by the sad narrative of our woes.
- The hens ofthis latitude, we take it, must
be active and early hens. Our belief is that
Ar lis but step from their pleasant roost to
he inviting nest, and that an orthodox Gre
ae hen makes that step quite as soon as
NFosy' fingered Aurora, sweet daughter of
~ be dawn" appears.
iSsN Expectant Dagos must seize the newly
i ~ deposited egg and rush before our doors,
! II md with yell, rather than cackle, OF
I'D 'riumph, crying, "Creole eggs!" "Creole
ggs, madame!7 "Fraishe Creole eggs ~
III The accent of this triumphant cry, sharp
i 4 Ind shrill, scarcely dies on the disturbed
ssi bar when again, just under your open
''A EEindow, some Frenchy demon yells, Cream
tetk heese" "Cream cheese, madam - Buy
Ut cream cheesel" And down the street he
III goes with his disgusting clabber and clatter.
sas "Tins to fix, madame? Tins to fx?''
sh vociforstes sSieilian, as he stops before your
door and swings from his shoulder to the
~ panquette his portable furnace. A gypsy
= tinker.
uni "Rattaaya! Rattanyai Rattanya!"
This cry is the extremist yell of the
~ horning. You may doze restlessly through
Nhe minor cries of distressed hucksters
nEs ind turn again to the wooing snooze, but
oss Fhen, away up the street a half dozen
sOnA Docks, you hear the echoing yell of the
ERattdnya" man, you know that sleep is
1ds burdered. How the villain rolls like
an Eset morsel under his tongue those villain
isl us rr RS! How he eliminates the yell
PEI TAM
I nv No one but burly-chested, bull.voiced
sth9 ban ever essays the Rettanya business.
ID Ind all this fuss is merely to sell to house.
i HS ives blocks of the fbrous root of the
IA" plmetto, used in scrubbing floors.
$ Waco! Walo sena Malo!o
4 The herb vender comes along, crying
hese queer words, his bag over his shout
tr and offering his little branches of dried
~ ~ reen at FIVE cents each.
Three kinds of "simples"-certain cures
TCfOr ieyers-are the "waco, walo and sena
NV Nv 1nao.p
!, az 'Des onyon, des onyon!" isthe next Dago
af|Ty that drifts along the blocks. Here he
'don omes, necklaced with long strings of gar
s & and bearing in his grlmy paws sticks,
which are affixed q dime or pics
i . Fcrth of onions.
:sssl As this strongscented disturber sinks
. ST vay vociferous, down the street slowly
BIZ moves the Banana man.
~ A funny chap is he, hardly speaking the
1s5 ecessary English to vend his fruit, and
osa sng an accent the funniest of all.
i'm "Bandny! Bdnaayi Oh, Mddamy !"
4 tom byee my bdnany" 'sell cheepy!"
7 Ayee my banGnyn mo like no buyee !"
Oia ud off he drifts, to make room for
"a "Belley Peche, Belley Peehe-Oh, Belley
hZknha n u ,
Jla chap with basket on arm, who thus
/ q snds the luscious peach,
'Aa' Pain au lait pain au lait!n cries woman
h.s Hho stalks down the street with a large fat
= Asket on her head.
2 N She is selling a queer mixture of bread
6aaA bed in milk, and the Creoles pronounce it
NJ othsome. And close behind her is an
her Dutch built dame, ofsome forty years,
- y Aho hoarsely sounds, belle gatesux Belle
ss teauxtn and tor small monies dispenses
Any dainty cakes.
by And thus the cadences of mysterious
itis nnds fail on our disturbed ears, till we find
n u urselyes in broad wakefulness.
ms And at length the music of bells from
GOV athedral and chapel, from ivied tower and
.9Ointng spire, tell us of the morning mass
Ii Ind he waiting confessionsls, to which
, 'sten the tripping feet of damsel and the
lting step of age. And forgetful of our
ER sarying annoyances Of the past hour, do
JaA alS not, as Bag devout and decorous,
Can. oihed in pure linen, and that peace of
ssai ind which its whiteness symbolizes, betake
la uselves to the calm atmosphere OF Gods
~ y nples, to muse on and hope for that final
u bbath morning when the wicked may
a Ts ne from. troubling and the weary be at
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