The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-23
Thil WAC the Moorish.

chicken
Rather cool that; bat it takes the puT' sang to
do it.
This was the Moorish.
CHAPTER II.
Irecolect reading an old romaunt of the days
Of La Dame eR Blanc, (by WIkie COllins)
There had been . dreadful ball; the crush was
awful, and tGttered kueam0rs, torn plumes and
disheyeled locks we're scattered here and there
over the scene of the struggle. BY the light OF
an expiring taper La Dame en- Blanc reclined
Isnguid and exhausted while the lily white and
rouge ran in a mingled stream down cheek and
throat, where 50 lately had shone the alternate
glow and pallor OF the conact-the true g1udun
ceTtdminis. Her faithful file de chdnlbre sup
ported her, and strove to revive her fainsng
strength. Ii was no 20. Gazing down a. the
gauze and guiptTe which shs had so gailsntly
borne through the press that night, her thoughts
reverted TO the long line OF her ancestors, (ner
mother and grandmother had been washerwom sn }
and seeing the eDssDgBined traces of the rapidly
melting rouge she exclaimed. IN ne OF half
subdued emotion, "Qu'd c9He rouge ct toJ%;
donnez MOI uR petit UeTTe dc redu dc ute sd oous
plat" And then they plsyed-on the piano
forte, which you know was both soft aud sroSg.
None but members OF the best families would
have done this, or could have spoken 80 paEhetI-
This is the blood part
E--. CHATTER II.
Tally hot Hark forr-rrard Gone away
Yoicks! etc., etc, etc, rose on the morning ar
from the irrItated ihrosts Of seven hundred fox
hunters, as a coyey Of foxes dashed boldly into
view.
The first fence was bull-hnch, the second a
post and rail- the third aud last an ugly black
t.orn hedge, with 40 feet Of clear water, and six
inches Of muddy between il and nine feet ha-hs
stiff plowed land on either side, aud a bssnonsd
work mounting nineteen guns in the middle.
These were fanked by cracker over the clay.
thrill weat through the hearts Of the bOldest a.
they approached
breed crossed on the barb came the boldsst rider
of the Midland counties, pulling hard, and hard
null it was. Don't think from the reference &c
The barb that il was a Barbary pullet)
As the field came up they sEerV7d 10 man, anC
got on as beat they could, some getting down aaC
climbing over, some creeping through the crack,
btse were the crack Tiders) and others hating anC
sending for the pioneer corps TO clear away ths
distractions, meantime the fox got clear away
Not so with the c0a-bsck sieed aud his noble
rider Boldly he rode at IL, haughuly he s"Oope
At it, elegantly he went for il, aud gloriously b.
dashed al il. Plunging the spurs in. aud with
wild CRY for gere they rose TO the leap. Inc.
had reached a point midway of the water, al
finding his horses strength 20 fail him, Oy a IRE
mendOus turn Of the wrist he lifted him 0odi.
aud slupg him faintng but victorious, many fee
beyond the ha ha %
shout Of appreciation went up from the 81
sembed multitude aud the fox, penetrated b.
astonishment, died IN his tracks. Wherefore h
was said TO have been in at the death, and Dor
The foxs tell in triumph 90 the iestal board.
This was the daring; and being the end OF IN
third chapter, closes the triangle, which mop
nv readers will acknowledge TO be eqIi.lAtsrSl-
to.wit: that the latter is equal TO all the rest
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