Old Creole Days

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Creole Days, by George Washington CableThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Old Creole DaysAuthor: George Washington CableRelease Date: November 24, 2003 [EBook #10234]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD CREOLE DAYS ***Produced by Suzanne Shell, L Barber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.OLD CREOLE DAYSA STORY OF CREOLE LIFEBYGEORGE W. CABLE1907CONTENTSMADAME DELPHINE CAFÉ DES EXILÉS BELLES DEMOISELLES PLANTATION "POSSON JONE'" JEAN-AHPOQUELIN 'TITE POULETTE 'SIEUR GEORGE MADAME DÉLICIEUSEMADAME DELPHINE.CHAPTER I.AN OLD HOUSE.A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to and across Canal Street, the central avenue of thecity, and to that corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the arcaded sidewalk, and make theair sweet with their fragrant merchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival it will be great—will followCanal Street.But you turn, instead, into the quiet, narrow way which a lover of Creole antiquity, in fondness for a romantic past, is stillprone to call the Rue Royale. You will pass a few restaurants, a few auction-rooms, a few furniture warehouses, and willhardly realize that you ...