The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-12
For the New Orleans Sunday Crescent
TOWN PLEASURES.
IN ANSWER TO COUNTRY PLEASURES.

- County, Miss, July s, 1868.
Friend GreScent-0ne of your lady contribu.
tors last Sunday thought proper to speak in quite
complimentary style of the country and its
pleasures, giving one drop of honey to a spoon
full of aloes. in her remarks. Now let me say in
answer TO her grefs that if we country cousins do
live under the shade of our gourd vine and per.
simmon tree" we are there free from a good
many OF the nuisances Of city life, anyhow. And
to prove the soundness of the ground take, let
me give you an account Of a few of the city plea
sures enjoyed while since, while paying a visit
to some friends in your Crescent city, and see if
you don't think the account a little more than
evenly balanced, between city and country plea.
sures.
l arrived at my friends house just about sun.
down, and had hardly gotten through the usual
salutstions, laid aside my travelling dress and &C.
comPsnied my friends down stairs when | was
deafened by the noise of cars, carts and milk wa.
gons. We were sitting on the front gallery, which
was just on the street, and suddenly stal wart
negro came round the corner, and beloved right
in my ear, scream.n THAT facts patent Ger
tainly," | said, when he commenced again. "a
scream for the ladies, scream for the children,
scream for the gentiles, and lagnappe for the ba.
bes." " Good gracious, uncle :" said l. "can't the
folks all scream for themselves, the babies and
children especially?n He laughed and opening A
big tin bucket he had on his shoulder, he said,
- sells ice cream missus, buy some2u
Just then, in the house next door, some one
commenced the Lancers' quadrilles, on the piano.
and over the street, some one as though bitten nv
spirit OF envy, struck up the Mocking Bird and
tnen on the right hand an ACCORDION broke forth
with Tramp, Tramp, and at that moment the dis.
coFdant notes OF an Indifferent violin, played by
some one whose ear could not tell a false note
when ne struck one, came jarring forth on the al
ready overwhelmed air, and set every particular
nerve IN my poor body on a culver. "My gra-
clous, Salie, how do you ever stand this? ~ I
gasped forth to my friend, who sat quite placidly
Dy and didn't seem the least bit put out, " Why.
ia go roaring crazy in a month" q Posh, Dolly
SAID she, THAT amt anything lust wait until Won
really have the things all started. | was inst think
ing how very still it was this evening unusuaIlv
So" "Oh, Lud," said |, 4" If this is quiet. what
on earth do you call noise" But, friend CREs-
CENT, found out what she meant before twentv
Tour hours had gone by. The next day CONT
ca seven pianos all at work at once and
some OF them, one in particular-did YOU ever
near an Old oxcart going down a corduroy road.
Nhen Inc wheels hadn't been creased lately and |
every turn was screech and a proan n vo,, |
uion Is nave, and 1t was really music alongside |
mat particular piano; not that the piano was in |
Iault, on no! It was a nice one bat the person |
VIZ P.ayeo II mas as much idea of time and music
as mat cart wheel, and the noise made was about
equsl IN sWeetness-and how that person paved. |
II perseverance and sticking at it would have |
9ohe any thlhg Tor him or her, what a Word.Won.
Ger they might have been
In the evening, just after dinner, l laid down |
lOI nap when was frightened almost TO death |
win the most unearthly grOans and means ever |
heard; and jumping up ran into Sale's room to |
ASK her IL any one was dying round therev 1
She just laughed like she'd 60 into fits, and said
. no, Dolly that's the little organ in the church, |
Oh, my! how II must hurt the people To ait
under that noise ~ Then the choir commenced
tnelr singing practice, and that was persimmon
blossom beyond my pumpkin vine / tell Won.
WY I've been TO singing schools a little where |
the PeoPie were not Jenny Liuds 10y auy manner |
OF means, but that practcing was Just little
ahead OF anything / ever heard. Every fellow
seemed to be going il alone" aud singing on his
or her Own account, without any reference 10 the
others, and two or three cats on shed roof
with dog or two baying the moon, would have
been music quite as charming; and then thew
kept it up till nearly eleven. Oh, nv! talk Of |
fighting fire. I'd rather my "roughr would catch
ere twice week, and have to fight it two DAYS out
CT the seven, than to live in town where Sallie
does, and have that noise in my ears. I should
certainly advertise for q house, and specially
state that there was not to be musical person. a
piano, violin, accordion. trombone guitar or
nute, or even jewsharp within two SQUARES. |
would! Don't you think | make nv side of the
question good, without saying anything about the
smeiis the dirt and the nigs in the cars with you
this hot weather?
Your friend in the country, DOLLY.