. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ailed to a post. Here pass a group of Frenchnegroes, the buxom girls dressed with a certain grace, and with gayly-coloredhandkerchiefs wound about an unpardonable luxuriance of wool. Their cavaliersare clothed mainly in antiquated garments rapidly approaching the level of rags;and their patois resounds for half-a-dozen blocks. Turning into a
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ailed to a post. Here pass a group of Frenchnegroes, the buxom girls dressed with a certain grace, and with gayly-coloredhandkerchiefs wound about an unpardonable luxuriance of wool. Their cavaliersare clothed mainly in antiquated garments rapidly approaching the level of rags;and their patois resounds for half-a-dozen blocks. Turning into a side street leading off from Royal, or Chartres, or Bourgogne,or Dauphin, or Rampart streets, you come upon an odd little shop, where thecobbler sits at his work in the shadow of a grand old Spanish arch; or upon anest of curly-headed negro babies ensconced on a tailors bench at the windowof a fine ancient mansion ; or you look into a narrow room, glass-fronted, andsee a long and well-spread table, surrounded by twenty Frenchmen and French-women, all talking at once over their eleven oclock breakfast. Or you may enter aristocratic restaurants, where the immaculate floorsare only surpassed in cleanliness by the spotless linen of the tables; where a. so PICTURES FROM THE STREETS. solemn dignity, as befits the refined pleasure of dinner, prevails, and wherethe waiter gives you the names of the dishes in both languages, and bestows onyou a napkin large enough to serve you as a shroud, if this strange melange ofFrench and Southern cookery should give you a fatal indigestion. The Frenchfamilies of position usually dine at four, as the theatre begins promptly at seven,both on Sundays and week days. There is the play-bill, in French, of course;and there are the typical Creole ladies, stopping for a moment to glance at it asthey wend their way shopward. For it is the shopping hour; from eleven totwo the streets of the old quarter are alive with elegantly, yet soberly attiredladies, alwa
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