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So he felt a moment; and then he smoked a cigar, and read the Picayune, and forgot his little gospel. Was he much unlike other folks? "You see, Evangeline," said her mother, "it's always right and proper to be kind to servants, but it isn't proper to treat them just as we would our relations, or people in our own class of life. Now, if Mammy was sick, you wouldn't want to put her in your own bed."
But the river rose, drift-wood accumulated, and the boom at length went the way of all things Confederate. Farragut passed the forts, and appeared before New Orleans; "Picayune Butler came to town," and the great city of the South fell into the hands of the all-conquering Yankees. Before steam power was applied to the propulsion of boats, the ascent of the Mississippi was very difficult.
But as I read the paragraphs devoted to her odyssey across the continent and around the borders of the Mediterranean, shadowed always by this persistent suitor with his picayune title, it struck me that her itinerary and the order of her going tallied with my own wanderings. Yet that might have no significance, since the routes of European touring are distressingly devoid of variation.
"I shall join General Bambos in his war against Yozarro, and we'll make him pay dear for his deviltry." "Do you prefer the friendship of General Bambos to that of General Yozarro?" "I don't care a picayune for either, but I will use one against the other." "You forget that there is no choice between the good will of the two. When you came up the forked river you first called at Zalapata."
Five hundred but mark me, sir, you've got to earn it! every picayune of it, sir, you've got to work for. When any clerk is caught idling or dawdling about these premises, he's turned out, neck and heels, with only just what he can scrape together on the shortest possible notice. I hope we understand each other. Go, now."
Why, that little Mike theyre can han'le the dthrum-sticks to beat the felley in the big hat!" And she laughed again. They made arrangements for her and the three children to go "out into the confederacy" within two or three days at furthest; as soon as she and her feeble helper could hurry a few matters of business to completion at and about the Picayune Tier.
In response to which: I went down to New Orleans early in 1848 to work on a daily newspaper, but it was not the Picayune, though I saw quite a good deal of the editors of that paper, and knew its personnel and ways. But let me indulge my pen in some gossipy recollections of that time and place, with extracts from my journal up the Mississippi and across the great lakes to the Hudson.
Every few miles were large towns or villages. Wednesday late we arriv'd at Albany. Spent the evening in exploring. Next morning I started down the Hudson in the "Alida;" arriv'd safely in New York that evening. From the New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 25, 1887. Thousands lost here one or two preserv'd ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, Aug. 22, 1865.
We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune, the first day; heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth. It has a restricted meaning, but I think the people spread it out a little when they choose.
"You can't close the Lane by that kind of bribery, Mr. Colton." "Bribery be hanged! Come, come, Paine! Wake up, or I shall think your brains aren't up to standard, after all. When I bribe I bribe. When I ask a man to work for me there are no strings tied to the offer. Forget your picayune land for a minute. Time enough to remember that when I've got it, which will be some day or other, of course.
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