The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-26
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feminine ttneenoy-haR and half-and sometimes
more so.
He can most generally be found at home
he ain't wanted.
He is a kind of second lutenant in his family
under half pay, with promise Of promoshuu.
He can beat his wife bilin soap, or nussin the
baby and she can beat him In the 4th Ward run.
ming for perlice constable.
He Is always ready 10 do ennyiking-wheu his
He is q kind NV spy in the household and IL
treated az such by the whole family. The ser
wants laun at him and the children don't fear
him.
He is as fierce as an old hen setting on one egg
and just about as dangerous.
His wife married him, not ont Of love, but out
pity; and pity never changes into respek!, but
generally into disgust.
The Generous Man. Generosity IL an ins.inkt-
a kind ov natral croOk-a weird child ov the
heart.
II is difirent from profession; prOfusion IL most
alwus the decoy duck of vanity.
Generosity IL difrent from charity charity IL
the impulse ov reason.
Ii ia dnrent from iustiss; justss is sixteen
ounces to the pound, and no more.
Generosity IL something more than jusiiss, and
sumthing less than profuson; it " the good N an
duz without being able tew give emmy reason
for it.
right. or viii have good excuse for what see ms
Generosity IL bravery, and 1t IL truth no one
ever saw generous man who was coward or q
lier.
Generosity sumtimes may lack prudence, but
1t never lacks faith, and faith has won heller
laures than prudence ever did.
The generous man chastens hiz gifts with the
assurance that the giyer IL az happy in the gift az
the receiver IL.
He takes the fust swaller ont ov the dpper. and
smscking his lips, insists ipon your drinking the
balance awl up.
Poverty haz no power over generosity, emmy
more than Il haz over love.
This IL my idee ov the kind ov generosity that
am writing about.
The Bldk Men emigrated to this free aud Plus
kun;ry about 200 years formerly, IN the 10 yer
story Of vessel he wuz kindly furnished with a
free ride and sum rice and water for yittes.
Imme giately upon hiz arrival he commenced
bizzness, for other folks, on our Eastern coast
He wuz yery Economical in hiz habits Of cloths
wearing but fu, and those seldom made out o'
cassymere.
he occasionally changed his lokation moving
into an adjoining state, but In these journeys h'
wuz alwas kindly furnished with guide, 50 thai
there wuz no danger ov hiz getting lost.
In these trips he seldom took his family will
him; they were either allowed TO remain at hum
or made excursions in search Of work tew othe
States under the guidause of experienced guides
Once in a while the Blak Man would stray AVA
far to the cold und bitter North, and git cruellI
lost.
Hiz guides would mourn Tor him then, ana Sarcl
for him, but hiz family soon got reconciled tew tn
loss.
Eyrybody sed WHARF he lived. that he was TIL
happiest critter that had ever bin discovered yet
with nothing tew do but work, aud kind guild
tew watch over him swl the time, and mourn 70
him when he got lost.
But the Blak Man IL very phoosh critter.
After 200 years nv this bliss, he grew cross tev
biz guides aud wouldn't follow the guides, and tn
kopseauentzs Is that the guides have got mad an
am afrade that the Blak Man will have tew TAX
care ov himself now.
He will find it very different from what it wa
before.
He haz got tew edukate his own yung one
now. and learn them how tew spell corrktly, on
ov the most difficult things in the world; and b
hsz got tew vote, and keep hiz famee together
and pay when be rides in the street kars.
am afraid the blak man hsz made mistake
II he haz it IL bad one, for his guides never wi
tax him into their hands agn-no, never! The
are mad, and don't like the way the blak ma
Quit them, when they WIZ driy with Dizziness
and after they had TUX 80 much care Nv him fc
70 many years.
feel sorry for the guides they alwus SCENE
few hev great interest In the blak mar
but they are mad now, and don't know ez
blame them much, for blak ingrattude IL u
poorest kind Nv pay.
II perhaps void be well enuf for me tew stat
for the benefit nv new beginners. that the bis
man formerly resided In Afrika, before he Gu
here 10 look for work.