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Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ere on inspection in thedaytime, but at night were carefully guarded by sol-diers, in the house where they were quartered together.Miss Grace King, in her delightful book, New Orleans,the Place and the People, tells us that in these timesthere were never enough girls to fill the demand forwives, and that in one instance two young bachelors pro-posed to fight over a very plain girl—the last one leftout of a shipload—but that the commandant obligedthem to settle their dispute by the more pacific means ofdrawing lots. As the place became settled Ursulinesisters arrived and established schools. And at last, aC(uarter of a century after the landing of the first ship-ment of girls, the curious history of female importationsended with the arrival of that famous band of sixtydemoiselles of respectable family and authenticatedspotless reputation, who came to be taken as wives byonly the more prosperous young colonists of the betterclass. The earlier, less reputable girls have come down 632
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HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS to us by the name of correction girls, but these laterarrivals—each furnished by the Company of the Westwith a casket containing a trousseau—are known to thisday as les filles a la cassette, or casket girls. A curious feature of this bit of history, as it appliesto present-day New Orleans, is that though one hearsof many families that claim descent from some nice,well-behaved casket girl, one never by any chancehears of a family claiming to be descended from a ladyof the other stock. When it is considered that the cor-rection girls far outnumbered their virtuous sisters ofthe casket, and ought, therefore, by the law of aver-ages, to have left a greater progeny, the matter becomesstranger still, taking on a scientific interest. The ex-planation must, however, be left to some mind more as-tute than mine—some mind capable, perhaps, of unrav-eling also those other riddles of New Orleans namely:Who was the mysterious chevalier who many years agoinve

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