The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-24

THIRSTY lOOkln galllnlpper ever my Is beheld,
out ov whose immense proporshuns glared
bailful lookin orbs ov fire, whose gals wus on
my bludless kountenens. 1 stood ruted the
spot for the moment, but forrid movement
! on the part ov the opposit party broak the
spell tibet wus woven round me, as it war.
NuIved desperashun, gathered my scat
terd N-ergies for a mitey effort, and seasin my
violin by the handle worth S6I), 1 fred it at
his fgger he'd and started
The ony avenoO ov eskape tibet presented
itself led rite past the houce and down lords
the smoak-houce; all my hopes in life war
sentered in that smoak-houce, for eff L Good
reech it be bean overtaiken by tother party,
in the language of the poick, 81 may be
happy yit!"
My feet got the loan ov fu pare Of wings
from feer and flu. l Good plainly heer the
footsteps Of my foa gain'n on me at every
step. Oh the horror of them moments
every ackshion of my life past be me-the
hoam ov my childhud rose to nv WI, and of
how l used 2 hide under the barn when my
sainted mother sent me to chop wood. /
thot ov Geneveeve-angelc Geneveeve! o,
thot i, its hard die in the bloom of yewth
and make no sine At the thots ov this my
brane reeled-eyerything swan befoar mel
could heer the gallinipper closin on mel
felt his hot breth on my cheek, when my foot
struck root and wus FRUSTRATED the erth
with force by no meens gentle, when sud
denly heerd a rushin sound thru the air
follered by mkt yell of pane and rage from
the gallinipper, when every thing grew dark
around me. l was faintin. As konshussnos
wus levin me I felt my he'd claspt by som /
and murmured Tell-my-mother- 1
di-. then hurd musick and butiful singin
in the distens.
Stranger Ihad swuned-swunedi in the arms
Oy nv angelic bein
CHAPTER XIV.
How long renamed in this kritikel kon-
dishun hev no korreckt idee; Suits it 2 sal
that when KUN 2, found myself lynn on
q bed-ov salad, with abuv sed angelic bean
bendin' over me. She he'd unshipped her
back hare and plaised it under my he'd, and
was bathin' my kountenans with well water
and calm me by names sweeter than emmy 2
be found in the konfeckshuner's calender.
Old Brown was thar, also, standin aloof, with
folded arms, survayin' the seen! Ike was
thar, also, sarchin' my cote pockits witch the
MAIDEN had pulld off mel to diskover nv
IDENTIFY eff possible.
As opened my eys Geneveeve hollered,
He lives! he lives He breethes he
breethes o! thot he was ded!" I thot
she was retirrin' the lait so-calledsgallinipper
so l murmured, "Nock him on the he'd WV
don't youl stop his wind beseech thee!" AS
uttered thoas words Geneveeve jumt up and
fell down in a SWINE.
got up then and with the assistens ov the
outsiders spoken Nv further up, konstruckt-
ed litter ov close poles. and boar her 2 the
manshun.
The female stingaree alreddy spoken ov
then took charge ov hir, and from ole Jones L
larned all didn't no about the afare alreddy.
don't intend 2 tell how he tole me that
Geneveeve hurd my surenaid and was kumin
to meet me wen she saw my perel Nor how
she saw that the gallinipper wood reech me
bed I'd reech the smoak-hOuce: nor how she
rushed in2 the kitchen and seazed a dish
cloth, and how she fred the dishcloth at him
Jest es l stumbled; nor how she flew upon him
like tiger when he fell, and buryed cloespin
in his hart. No, stranger, I'll not tell emmy of
these things outsiders.
The ole man wus pumpin me all he moo
how about my family, my biznis, my pros.
pecks and SOD, when like a streek ov ltenin',
CHAPTER XVI
Geneveeve KUN 2 and yelled like a cata-
mount, pintin' at me. Take him awayl Kill
him, or he will destroy me and seazin a
kandlestick, she kun for me, fomein at the
mouth like on beer keg. 1t is soop-erfluis
2 sal that evaporated lords tother side of the
house-that is, the outside-for the fack was.
my nurves were in the saim kondishun es my
-
The trooth kannot be hidden longer. The
events of the last flu hours-that is, the fite |
with the gallinipper, together with ketchin |
cold IN her he'd by unshippin' her waterfall in |
the mite air-hed effected her brane Dais |
glided in2 weeks and weeks in2 months, but !
still reeson did not return 2my angelick bean; |
and, wust Nv all, Good not KUN ny her, fur |
she imagined l was q huge gallinipper |
Imagin' my feelins Forbidden 2 see my |
angelic bean 1t was moar'n Good stand, so |
l day went down Browns, and tole him I |
must see my angelick bean. He sed l |
coodn'tl sed 1 Good! He sed I'd better |
try it ON. went for the door, and he went |
fur his blunderbuss, and swore he'd hurt nv |
feelins. went in2 the house, and got es fur |
es the door 'of the room ov my angelic bean, |
when ole Brown met me. SEE he: keep out |
or I'll Spite yore looks!" and he pinted his |
blunderbuss at my he'd. l sed notbin' but |
lowerin' my he'd the proper distens, prepared |
2 gin a rale ole ginooine Congo butt in the |
stomick. As soon es got my he'd sited fur
him, l went fur him he'd 4most But, o! |
Lard he stuck out his blunderbuss and run
agin it, wich no sooner did then he let fly
and toar the hole top ov the he'd off ov me,
and smashed my he'd in2 1000 pieces, when |
with yell loud enuff 2 wake the de-
KoNKLUsHUN.
woke. I'd bin asleep all the time in the
and dreamed the abuv. The GALL
niPpers he'd bin Almost chawin' the he'd off |
me vile wus asleep.
The AMERICAN GIRLs.-Whoever wrote the |
would do well to continue in a similar
strain. 1t is from an exchange paper:
II Ia the belief Of certain well meaning men, |
Uhn W~GNA wnNh A.