Creole Sketches

by Lafcadio Hearn

CREOLE SKETCHES

BY

LAFCADIO HEARN

EDITED BY

CHARLES WOODWARD HUTSON

With Illustrations by the Author

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1924

CONTENTS

Introduction		ix
Lafcadio Hearn's Cartoons		xvii
The Glamour of New Orleans	November 26, 1878	1
La Douane	December 2, 1878	6
Morning Calls — Very Early	July 7, 1880	11
The City of Dreams	March 9, 1879	14
Ultra-Canal	July 17, 1880	22
A Creole Type	May 6, 1879	26
Ghosteses	August 18, 1880	34
A Visit to New Orleans	May 10, 1879	38
Quack! Quack!	August 20, 1880	45

Complaint of the Creole Boarding-House-Keeper	September 27, 1879	47
The Boarder’s Reply	September 28, 1879	52
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before	August 19, 1880	57
Why Crabs are Boiled Alive	October 5, 1879	59
A Creole Journal	October 5, 1879	60
The Restless Boarder	October 27, 1879	63
Furnished Rooms	November 2, 1879	67
Char-Coal	August 25, 1880	70
Mexican Coins	November 3, 1879	72
Louisiana People Not Gay	November 4, 1879	76
A Creole Courtyard	November 11, 1879	78
The Creole Character	November 13, 1879	82

Des Perches	August 30, 1880	85
A Kentucky Colonel Renting Rooms	November 15, 1879	88
The Dawn of the Carnival	February 2, 1880	90
A Mexican’s Gratitude	April 12, 1880	93
Washerwomen	August 31, 1880	98
Attention! Azim!	July 8, 1880	102
An Ultra-Canal Talk	July 13, 1880	106
Sons of the Sea	September 1, 1880	111
A Creole Song	July 26, 1880	115
The Grandissimes	September 27, 1880	117
The Indignant Dead	September 8, 1880	124
A Creole Mystery	October 6, 1880	128

Whited Sepulchres	September 9, 1880	135
Eleusis	November 12, 1880	138
Latin and Anglo-Saxon	November 24, 1880	145
The Flower-Sellers	September 11, 1880	150
A Visitor	November 26, 1880	153
Creole Servant Girls	December 20, 1880	160
The Alligators	September 13, 1880	164
Home	January 8, 1881	167
Old-Fashioned Houses	January 12, 1881	175
The Vendor of Wisdom	September 15, 1880	183
Some Positive Opinions	April 27, 1881	188
Voices of Dawn	July 22, 1881	197