The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
q or the New Orleans Sunday Crescent
THE BROkER; OR, ON THE FLAGS.

by THE AUTHOR OF sIsAL CAssELLMANS, THE
GUAGER; LATHMoRE, OK THE WORK OF HIS
OWN HANDS; BETSY BEvELL, JAUSDIcE,
ETC., ETC.
IJocko found the aftergoing 10 a bottle. Who
put it there he will not pretend to say; but that it
came thence he is sure, for it could not have been
otherwise produced. Jocko hopes the public will
duly appreciate the contents OF the bottle and
swallow them, as be did, without commentl
CHAPTER I.
He was on the fsgs. He stepped from one to
another as be walked. IL had rained. Water
was under he flags. Water squrted. 1t squirted
on the broker. Helds!
CHAPTER'u.
Why was he on the flags? Listen.
He had been merchant.
As a merchant be had not been successful.
In short. as merchant he had failed.
Men said be was broke.
He replied. " will be broker"
He was a broker.
Viola
Ecce homo
See him!
CHAPTER III.
But why was he on the flags!
BE not impatient; you shall hear.
Ore morning the telegraph boy rushed ia with
q dispatch. The broker took il. he scanned il.
He tore the envelop. He read the dispatch. So
il was:
{" Egqs oroniscient. Fo,feuab!e elephant.
(h0ntDUCUe are NOnOiP TitntlgUte.'
He felt badly. No wonder.
He fed from his Office. He was desperate. He
said-" am ready for something fagitious."
Therefore he went on the flags.
10 ZrtUnDhe!
CHATTER ".
The fact is he had bought short" and was
caught in a corner.n His margin" was passed
and his " marginal notes " were falling due, and
he was about to suffer a squeeze" Being Of a
reflective turn he asked himself whether the cor
,.nn sv.Ys w.a.a
concluded it was an angle Of accidents.
He had forgotten the customary duties Of a
broker and had gone on the market himself, and
now be felt willing TO have cussed Mary" or
" Cussed any body else. if it would have raised
The money. BY The above reference to g custom
airy duties " do not think he was a custom house
broker. He was an honest man,
CHAPTER v.
When he reached Carondelet he remarked to a
friend, Lend me some money" The friend
had an obligation to meet that day and was sorry
whether for the broker or the obligation does not
He met another friend and said the preceding.
The friend bad jast paid his washer.woman and
was dead broke.
A third friend had already Overdrawn his &C.
fourth was "just out"
A fifth was positively on the borrow himself (;
and
CHAPTER VI.
Said the broker-"I am done brown am
used up-I am played out am sucked dry. In.
less | get mOistened | shall blow away. As a
hart panteth after the water brooks, so do l de-
asre a sprinking. Where! oh where! is the anti
fiony Can not hire Water?" And an echo an.
swered " Hia watha!" and continued,
"oh my broker, don't you wish you
Hadn't go cit quite so strong on
ThOse soil starred spsculstiOns
Had Sou cny listened duly
Iistent d TO the sweet forewarning
Oryour happy hook nosed partner,
Then you would not now have found your
Nor would You have been so hard up"
And thai broker sitting fitting never fitting.
On epbstons cold and camuy which he'll press for
And the ET him streaming with dead rats aud pselus'
Like etfsught river seeming from some farO1 bsrr0om
While the gasght DER him cleaning shows his coat Whsrs
" To be mendsd nevsrmOrs
'oor coat! Sad broker! Unfortunate state Of
ctN .umstances!
CHAPTBR VII.
M e scene changes.
A. Monde cendrG brocade dress. A black pc.
rluu q, parasOl with white Palsy beads. blue
maud hat and pink poUh de So1e boots, cut Dias
and n >mmed with cluny. Divine creature. APP
prosch hAnd let me worship. A star: flower!
CHAPTER VIII.
She Or sws near. She gazes-she is struck dumb
with at, &nishment and cries out " 0 mon Dieu
mort de a vie ! bots de rose ! The broker rose
They sa{ brAce. Iii AUdlio.
CHATTER TX,
She had ktnown it ell along q. e., to-wit., viz.
SAVIOR, that ~ to say, that he had bought shoT
and would bksqueezsd,) So she came with love
in ore hand Md her purse in the other. The bro
kerwas not the winning horse, but he took tn,
Ashe diu so he murmured, "What ia yours il
mine-hless YOU, my wife ~ and she believed II.
Credulous woman clever broker
New Orleans July IS, 1873.
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