Bohemian Days

ated personages were assembled under the roof of an old, eight-stor

that effect, and take the only congenial means for replenishment and reform. This means lay in miniature before a caged window, revealed by a su

rt of him, for he performed respiration and articulation with the same organ-his nose; and the sol

e of the chamber-a pale, emaciated youth, sitting up in bed, and ciphering tremulously, with bony fingers; even he, upon whom disease had mad

of his thirtieth year shading his working temples; he had been the most envied man in Paris; no woman could resist the magnetism of his eye; he was almost a match for the great Berger at billiards; he rode like a centaur on the Boulevards, and counterfeited Apollo at the opera and the masque. His credit was good f

leman; not enough to earn a franc a day. He is the protégé at present of his washerwoman, and can say, with some governments, th

sed to be a terror. There, he would be secure of sustenance an

Casino and the Valentino of evenings; for som

ger; and has yet credit for a dinner at an obscure cremery. When this

ble to break any gambling bank-Spa, Baden, Wisbaden or Homburg. The others have systems also, from Auburn Risque to

afternoons upon the Champs Elysées. She had other engagements, of course, when Mr. Lincoln's "paper blockade" stopped Master Simp's remittance

Jeems Rutledge. His speech, on that occasion, occupied in delivery just three minutes, and set the co

," said Simp, anxiously, "I w

have been a close calculation for a mathematician to know how many black sweat-drops, how many strokes of the rawhide, went into the celebrated dinne

comrade had been Mr. Andy Plade, who n

as a short-set individual, in pumps and an eye-glass, who had been but a few days in the city. He was decidedly a man of senti

efully ignored the fact; and, having run the blockade with profitable cargoes fourteen times, had settled down to be a respecta

at Plade himself had great,

liers who hail the advent of war as some

yours do not validate themselves. You are novices at gambling; I am an old blackleg." It was as he had said; the method of betting which he propo

lved to collect every available sou, and, confiding it to the keeping of Mr. Risque, send him to Ge

subscribe anything. He did not doubt the safety of "the system" of course, but had

ing, but thought he might borrow a trifle, volunteered to dispose of, and Freckle, a Missourian, who was tolerated in the colony only because he could be plucked, asserted enthusias

drink at Freckle's expense to the success of the system, and Hugenot was prevailed upon

upon himself in the light of a benefactor

unnatural, that a Suth Kurlinian, who sat-at an early age, it is true-at the feet o

s of Freckle, who, unused to spi

; when I remembah that two short years ago, they waih of independent fohtunes-one with his sugah, anotha with his cotton, a third with his tobacco, in short, all the blessings of heaven bestowed upo

ot a man of sentiment, and slapped his back; while Freckle fell upon

r that address had an universal application, and might mean as much now as on the original occasion, brought

nigga would keep me now for a yeah. At home, by Gad, I could afford to spend the wuth of a stavin

the Havre steamers," muttered Andy Plade. "I consid

undred years old-every panel of fence toted away-no bacon in smoke-house-not an old rip in stable-no corn, coon, possum, rabbit, fox, dog or hog withi

but finish what is almost consummated now. I tell you, boys, I expect to die in this room; I shall never quit this bed. I am offensive, wasted, withe

eat Cemete

tes became pale; they looked more squalid than ever-the threadbare c

pin, glaring like a lamp upon the worn garbs and faces of his

d. You shall have clothes upon your backs, shoes upon your feet, specie in your pockets, blood in your veins. Let u