The New Orleans crescent., 1868-03-01
"a. nEAD's. WEAKLY rEwrLLEros


The weak back has nearly ''broke" me.
Although there was but days in the past
weak, feel somewhat as though there had
been IA, and other brave but modest COM
patriots are suffering from circumstances
over which they have no control headaches
and sich, owing TO having drank too much
water in their lemonade. 1 tried to get home
bosom friend of mine by the name of Col
onel, and taking him by the arm, exclaimed
in persuasive accents, @My boy, let's go home;
its 3 o'clock" He gazed at me, and laughing
Meg Merrilles laugh he said, |" Head (hic)
what's O'clock among of usi" We didn't
60 home Immediately. We fingered. "We
wandered by the brookside." We strayed.
When went home. Araminta wanted to know
where had been, and 1 told her II had been
to the Lodgel" '.welI, then exclaimed the
sweet voiced angel of my buzzum, @you better
go back to the Lodge and stay the rest of the
night, for you can't lodge herei" o. what is
home without a--wife Aint she ? Of course
she is. So
But am not going to tell my wife how
went to the sociable of the 81. Y. @. s" and
got acquainted with several charmers, and
how wanted to kiss them ali for their moth
ers, but they said their mothers wouldn't like
it. and / mustn't, and then they sighed, and
cast sleeps eyes at me, and said l was ga
nice young man." It's phunny how they
IN z.zis2s@ia Of my like that
Well, saw no more of them until Mardi
Gras night, when went to the ball of Mys-
tick Krewe, and there my sole was moved.
So was young lady's at the same time /
took her little hand in mine and squoze it; 1
put my arm around her waist and squoze
that; then we began to whirl together ilf the
mazes of the dance to the sound of delicious
musick, and the effect was a-maize-ing for /
felt as tho 1 was corn-ed The next morning
when arose she sent me rose as gentle
reminder of our little firt. "'Twas but
little faded flower" but it was put in my up
per left hand side breast pocket, where it en-
kindled flame that no steam fire engine can
put out with sixty feet of lose. 1 wish was
a ring upon her finger, a necklace round her
neck or hair pin in her hairl
CHAPTER II.
Mardi Grass passed away. 1t has done so
before. i went home and slept "the sleep
of 90 years." When 1 awoke the gentle raise
of the setting sun were shining in between
the bed posts of my bed. The young lady in
the other chapter had grown to womanhood,
that hood had become q wife, that wife
mother. Women have done so in other
novels than this This is woman's rights.
"What is home without mother"
CHAPTER III. -
Come with me, gentle reader. 10 the sunny
cline of Alaska, where the walrusses waddle
in months of day, 13 months of winter out
of a year, a months nighttime where the
ice fields grow spontaneously and the polar
bear wraps the mantle Of his couch about
him and lies down to pleasant Dreams" In
this delightful oriental region single, sol-
tary horseman might have been seen wend-
ing his way alone and unattended, and with
out an escort. In case his horse slipped,
there was no eye to succor, no sucker to
save. He was collector of internal rev.
enue.
When I get the other characters in my
novel disposed of may return to him.
CHAPTER w.
The glorious son was setting in the west
where it sets most of the time. Kongress
was also setting, So was hen. The son
had sot for some time All nature smiled at
Is cents a smile. Having no other convey
ance / got into train of thoug be and roamed
thro the mysteries of space, and | thort the
world never looked more beautifuller. Ny
train fetched me up in that paradice or para
Washington. Mister Sternhold had
cot and slept, ct and drunk, in the war offs.
He tried to get the goddess Of liberty to wash
his dirty linen, but she was engaged with
SEWN mashine, trying to patch up the Union.
saw Washington by pite, and looking up
TO the planets, / thort how harmoniously they
was moved in their orbits under the guidance
of Kongress, and how insignificant was man.
/ reflected how this great planet had been Gre
ated in days and some mites for the exclu-
siye enjoyment of the Republican party, and
wondered at the great power of Kongress to
create sich world in so short time and to
keep it whirliDg all the while.
The Kongressers will live to good old age
for reasons: 1st, "Deth loves a shining
mark" I'd, "Whom the Gods love, dye
young" Yes, according TO this latter poet,
Kongress may never die