New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-20
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1874

shindy, come round an see Ole John. He'll
take turn with ye: he'll show We bout the
districk. Stranger. ketch another holt o
that whisky. Nothing like whisky. is thar!
How dye raise nigh tone gentlemen with
out it,"
Here. for the third or fourth time. Old
John lighted his cigar from that OF his
listener. He always had q cigar in his
mouth, bu: seldom smoked much of it, for
he had habit OF talking constant" After
chewing one end OF the luxury to pulp.
and relghting the other until it would no
longer take fire satisfactorily, he threw 1t
away half consumed. and common need the
same was:efui process upon another. Those
were the days. be it remembered, when
Havanas sold at three for dime. BY the
way. his smoking and talking did not pre-
vent him from chewing.
Meanwhile he drank copious!y. lie had
not taken his bender out when the young
man arrived, and his in1amed stomach now
insisted that he should go on with it.
Drunk he could not get. For years he had
been above the highest tide OF whisky: for
years he had not been seen to etagger. Bat
at last he fell asleep in his arm chair. snOr.
ing, with open mouth and half shut eyes
an object Of envy to old Sol. Maytieid was
also overcome and took a long nap upon a
wooden settee, while Luce sat near and
watched him With admiration. When the
youth awakened. late in the afternoon, he
sent a youth to the Rev. Seymour. with his
letter of introduction and note stating
that he would present himself in the morn
ing.
cole Sol shall tote ye roun' thar" said
John Raddle when his guest was about to
depart. 1--WE got a Yankee wagon an q
,%nt, 7 oh
dime for the ride. jest you cast yer eve a!
little grey as We go along, that's ali. Efever
ever We git yer head out for shindy, she's
the creetur for We. Eff We hev gal along"
he chuckled. IAN want ter go slow through
a piece of woods. an do little lip saryice
without bein' jolted. she can trot all day in
bari. An eft you want to get clar of any
other mans dust, she can haul We right out
of it in no time. don't keer whose dust it
is. Jest take a look at her. Some day you'll
want ter hire, or we mought want ter
trade
No one who knows the nature ola Cracker
hoyden will suppose that Luce Raddle al
lowed the handsome young stranger to de.
part without running the pleasan: risk Of
another tete.a-tete with him. AS May field
was packing his trunk he heard femme
drapery behind him, and, turning at the
alluripg rustic, he beheld Luce.
Il reckOned you mought want sOmethin.
she said, with slight stammer and very
deep blush.
With promptness which showed pre-.
cOciOus experience in h;rtatiOns. anu with
an air of benign confidence which was
wonderfully winning, ne stepped up to her
and took both her hands.
$50 did want something" We said. lay.
ing his smooth young cheek against hers.
a
1t was the antique story OF Unmatched
love making: it was the thread bare Euro.
pean drama Of the peasant and the noble
This common place, halfwild, truly low
down adventure would not be worth re-
lating, did it not bring face to face those
two immemoriai types of humanity. the
patrician and the plebian. In our time it
seems an anachrOnism; on the soil OF
republic it is an exotic. monstrOsity: and
hence the interest OF our narrative, if it has
any. This girl. who had been made lowly
by the breath of slavery. was SO happy at
receiving few words OF endearment from
this boy, who had been made grand Ky
slavery, that she could not speak.
''Do you know what a pet Ne" he asked
with smile, holding ler GU. a: arms
length.
.'Yis, hev pet"
What is it,
"A pig; a tame pig. She followed me
halt mile t'other day
He could not help laughing at her rustic.
ty, and yet he though it very charming.
Il am much luckler than you.' he said.
Il have a much nicer pet than Il pig. Such
4 nice pet that / want to kiss it,
Luce did not turn away her cheek any
further than would make things perfectly
to this wondrous lover: and the
rankness. the whole heartedness. with
which she presently put up her lips to his
was, to Thoughtful eye, nothing less than
,ltlful. Patrician as he was. and by birth.
light despiser of low down people. he wac
stricken with respect for her cOntiding sim.
olicity. and treated her with the chivalry Of
7Outh.
''Good bye. my dear child" he said. ZOOS.
ng her hands: Il shall see you often
while 1! am here. and shall never forge,
7Ou.''
Then they walked or .iptoe 70 the door
md parted. both unsatistied with the inter
7iew. On. this unappeasable hunger Of
7o1nS hearts for love. and :Oz love, sad
till II ore IOr love.
Parson Seymour soon discovered that his
'upi! was person OF praiseworthy regular
abits. Mayti studied hard every morn.
ng. recited admirably IN the hour before
inner, and Cook q walk every afternoon.
he parson admired hard students and per.
ons OF regular habits, and consequently he
e2orted tavorably OF the youth to the col
eye factory.
Meantime nee Raddle was attaining 10
much more thorough knowledge Of the
ustlcated ones character without making
ny report thereof except to that one conf
ante whom every lOve.lorn female must
ave. Every afternoon she met him IL a
inc grove near Ler home. and thence stole
nth him down the secluded course of the
aiuda to grove Of oaks, curtained in from
he world by close edging of underwood.
here. seated on the bank of the whisper.
x little river. with no spectators but a
'ooded and uninhabited slope rising from
ne opposite shore. they passed the time
'hich Mr.. Maytiel1 was supposed to devote
} walking for his health. Was it alto.
ether spen: in talking. laughing and thrcv.
~ pebbles into the swift water! An
'alsts--days which. as every ancient maiden
sdy knows. have long since departed: day.
hich the literature of our time can no.
eat of without hesitation.
"A justice to Luce it must be stated thu. |
10 did not prefer tais clandes;ine sort o.
why don't you come to gee Inc thar q:
le house I" she repeatedly asked.
land 80 do he orce answered |
II saw you there yesterday"
'0h! you jest spoke 20 Ine-jest as
i up with me thar. Par and mar wouldn't |
eer: an they'd .s: Is hev tie big front !
'om.'
"IIl come some time" be SAID. Don't |
axe Up face at me-
But this promise was not KEEP, and was
u meant to be kept; for Mayfeic was thus
r advanced IN the wiekedness Of firta.
IN; he could assent witE the sole intent Of
if convenient.
he had compcnctions az to his
nduct toward the girl. But then she was
e daughter of Cracker who had made
oney. by selling whisky to niggers; the
n 40 6 orn%hor ~, o1ron |