The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-21

PoKr. se ts
rr syss TIE THREE HORNED OK.
Ash 4, good Ite blind hog has fosnd the scorn-Koan
Ibsve seen the three-horned OK! 4r
lam ox.tstically happy lam intoxicated with
joy
Not Pluto: not Rhsdsmsnthus; not all the
novers of darkness; not old Nox himself can
Give m e psuse. have seen the three-horned OK !!
Nv fsslines ran "a an unbroken stream of biss; Q
stream as sofs.l Is creamy. as buttermilky as If
thew vsrs rr,rtSr ont of cedar churn into the
exnectapt pizl xeugh. Pm in New Orleans!
Now the r.hl ainkle of the cocktail tumblers
and the deEeibIs "jipgv of cooling Cstawbs
cobblers in cu,kAss carkanets come blinking from
the marbe-coFntered sazarac. f IL Sunday
morning. 4:
Lo 1.-THE th,4e young men up tne Csnai
street side.wsltl They have Alpine hats they
have kid-Qlovs& they poke their heads out rs
thew walk: tidy have the Grecian bend. II Is
Sunday morning
Now sweet d eteen and sour twenty nine, come
" sisters, hanb. in.hand, on their way to Christ
Church. II is Sunday morningl
Now the Warning thought of Holmes, sweet
Holmes. no uiore distrscts the she-emotions as
the dear creatures pass along. 1t Is Sunday morn.
ingl
Nov nature has put ON . blue farlstsue sud
novdered her hair with sun-besms. The world Is
ont for lark bid It is, hey go boys !-two-forty
ON the shell.rAd to the seven stars
Winter is the spout-and Pm IN New Or
leans Iii
.swere yoSever in New Orleans?"
"Don't tell me you live here, for then 1 shall
think Won stubid; but tell me were you ever in
New Orlesnsf"
"pid you eyer get to New Orleans after resid-
ina ak months IN purgatory, Have you ever had
The plessurs d suffering eternal punishment for
limited periodahd afterwards going TO Heaven to
dance the def temps with the angels. Did you
ever dwell otts;reenlsnd's icy mountains till your
head cot on All and then take through ticket for
the Garden otfSden, re-established and conducted
on the Europ}ah plan. where you can call for any
thing you want! DID you ever see the tnree-
horned ox!w
THE 4REAr WONDER OF THE AGEi
A LIVING OK hITH THREE EYES AND THREE HORNS.
THE CENTlR HORN MUCH THE LARGEST OF THE
THRKE.
It's as correct as ~ it was really true. have
seen il. Uidl you have seen "a living OK with
three ewes I'D three horns the center horn much
the largest IN the three" you have, technically
speaking OH ia slight idea of things. No man
can propef& appreciate his true condition as q
child Of wra{k and yet saved by grace unless he
has witnessed Auch feat of the Imagination. II
n, indeed, wonderful.
When weRedsct. too, upon the fact that "the
center horna IN ''much the largest of the three"
DO sane man can fail to be affected. 1t Is kind
of thing to drew on mans feelings when he fancies
what might have been the result II " the center
horn had NOT been the largest Of the three"
How II would have been impossible for the pa
fient animal 80 have carried his head level; how
his ideas would almost inevitably have become
warped and twisted how he might have been
made wretehed BY such inequality OF fortune as
should deny 'sthe center horn" the privilege Of
being, and tfing quoted ss "the largest of the
three" NoS he is said to be remarkable for his
s'besuty ahdsymmetry Of form :" then such praise
could by no fneans have been his (truthfullyl. II,
for instance 1.-THE center horn.n had been Hide
veloped or uSgainly, and instead Of being the
largest "-uty, "much the largest -" OF the
three" had feen, say-not at all SO; but on the
contrary onA of The other horns had been "much
circumstance 8, would have been unhappy Indeed,
] think withkuch load on his brain he must have
been unhappy. never could bear to think OF an
unhappy OK; because believe an Oh, ne we're
Have you seen the three.horned OK!
IL you haven't seen the three horned ox-go
and see him. he 's very genial In his disposition,
and for hay he has sincere affection, which
shows he is not hollow in his feelings. He Is per-
fectly polite, too, and though he is and must be
greatly worried by the constant crowd OF visitors
he never even as much as speaks o cross word to
any of them; In short, he Is urbane and dignihed
porfly in his person and thoroughly sincere in all
his statements. He told Q little boy one day he
would help him out Of the pen-and immediately
did.
Then, too, he was "recently captured in Will
hanson county, Texas" Another cause of the
interest take in him. and conversely the interest
j take in him is the cause (no, not Of William
son county, j" butt why like to tell about him
because, Is the metaphysical Hope says In his
Pleasures Of Pope:"
"If this
Eject defective come BY cause, or mol"
Now know williamson county, and 1t does
come that way and no other.
Some Of the chiefest joys Of my boyhood are
1iuked-like gorgeous fairy sausages-to that fair
cline. II was place "of still delight" "a re.
freshing place, (Nuggles kept the stage stand and
gave you fresh pork and cabbage at dollar .
rivers did generally run dry when they were most
needed; but then the prairies we're very large,
and the skies, like 'the center horn," were 1.-THE
largest of the three" The skies in Williamson
One Of tho largest skies ever saw was in evil
Hanson county" ! went to get of q mustang
while he was about ten feet MP In the air, (they
call 1t "buck, jumping" out there,) and I hap
pened to get down on my head. The sky sud-
denly began turning wrong side outwards and IN
rolling like q panorama Of the Desert of Sahara,
and IL got bigger and bigger and bigger, until "a
Tennyson remarks:
/ could bear II no more.
But wound myself up In wintry way,
And walked in the garden, and found
The shining daodl dead in the light of the sun Of
that she loves,
And up above q broad-hung beach that wal
dragged,
For q sSipwrecking roar was Orion reft Of hil
lstch-key ..Ff. sfl
And dead drunk on the steps!
Have you-but think mentioned that once
before.
Yours In the yoke, JocKo.
MILLINERY GooDs.-As spring unfolds her ten
der blossoms and all nature dances to the melody
of birds, 30 alike do our tastes and pleasures in
cline to the gentle Influences of this detachable
season. We throw of the heavy habments o.
-~;rx,x ana don ha lioht and airv taxtura of ann