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Title: 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
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the unhappy manager whodares refuse the order of the King to this effect. On one occasion, a well-known actor arrived in the city during the festivities to fulfill an engagement,but as the managers of the theatre at which he was to act had refusedto honor the Kings command for free admission to all, the actor was at oncearrested, taken to the den of the Earl-Marshal, and there kept a closeprisoner until a messenger arrived to say that the recalcitrant manager hadat last acknowledged the corn. The violet is the royal flower; the imperialbanner is of green and purple, with a white crown in the centre; and the anthemof the mystic monarch is, If ever I cease to love. The accumulation ofcostumes and armor, all of which are historically accurate, is about to result inthe establishment of a valuable museum. The artists pencil has reproduced in these pages one of the many comicalincidents which enliven the Carnival tide,.and calls his life sketch Beauty and STREET CRIES AND STREET SCENES. 45
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the Beast From the gallery of theVciiietics Theatre, many blight eyes arein vain endeavoring to pierce the dis-guise under which a fashionable memberof the Comus Krewe parades beforetheir gaze. From early morning until nightfallthe same quaint, distorted street-crieswhich one hears in foreign cities ringthrough the streets of New Orleans;and in the French quarter they aremirth-provoking, under their guise ofCreole patois. The Sicilian fruit-sellersalso make their mellifluous dialect heardloudly; and the streets always resoundto the high-pitched voice of some negrowho is rehearsing his griefs or joys inthe most theatrical manner. Negro-beggars encumber the steps of variousbanks and public edifices, sitting forhours together with open, outstretchedhands, almost too lazy to close them overthe few coins the passers-by bestow. Amultitude of youthful darkies, who haveno visible aim in existence but to sportin the sun, abound in the Americanquarter, apparently well fed and happy.The mass of*

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