.MTM2Ng.MTE2MTYw

27A It was said of the Americans that they are born in a hurry, live in a worry & go to N.O. to die of Yellow fever. At the ? of any of the inhabitants of N.O. is the following.

  Brought up in the North, they 6 unclear words at an early age began with a County House or two or three years he considers that he knows sufficient to become leader in his own book, goes with a small assortment with the ? perhaps among the Indians, here he gets found of by his own Master & a wandering life, when after earns ? finds his way to N.O. as clerk of a Steamboat.