The New Orleans Sketch Book

Excerpt from The New Orleans Sketch BookWE stopped, yesterday, at a barber's shop on Chartres street, lured by the plaited serpents - white, red and blue - Of brighter dyes than usual - coiled about the advertising pole, and each endeavoring to swallow the gilded sphere on its upper extremity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.