[Illustration:  Hanging in the air above the middle of the stream]

[Illustration:  These small parks give Savannah a quality which differentiates it from all other American cities]

[Illustration:  The Thomas House in Franklin Square in which Lafayette was entertained]

[Illustration:  You will see them having tea, and dancing under the palm fronds of the cocoanut grove, when the electric lights begin to glow in the luminous semi-tropical twilight]

[Illustration:  Cocktail hour at The Breakers]

[Illustration:  Nowhere is the sand more like a deep warm dust of yellow gold; nowhere is there a margin of the earth so splashed with spots of brilliant color; nowhere is water less like water, more like a flowing waste of liquid emeralds and sapphires edged with a thousand gleaming flouncing strings of pearls]

[Illustration:  The couples on the platform were “ragging,” their shoulders working like the walking-beams of side-wheelers]

[Illustration:  Harness held together by that especial Providence which watches over negro mendings]

[Illustration:  It was a very jolly fair, with the usual lot of barkers and the usual gaping crowd]

[Illustration:  The mysterious old Absinthe House, founded 1799]

[Illustration:  St. Anthony’s Garden, where duels originating at the quadroon balls were fought]

[Illustration:  Courtyard of the old Orleans Hotel]

[Illustration:  The little lady who sits behind the desk is more than ninety-five years old, and came to New Orleans as the bride of Antoine]

[Illustration:  The lights are always lowered at Antoine’s when the spectacular Cafe Boulot Diabolique is served]

[Illustration:  Passing between the brilliantly illuminated buildings, under festoons of electric lights the Mardi Gras parades, with their floats, their bands, their torch-bearers, their masked figures, are glorious sights for children from eight to eighty years of age]

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Transcriber’s Notes.

    Page 82:  changed “Ridgleys” to “Ridgelys” (of present
    Ridgelys)

    Page 83:  changed “her serious, eyes” to “her serious
    eyes”

    Page 138:  Added missing word “we” (said as we were about
    to leave)

    Page 161:  removed hyphen from “one-course” (prescribed
    one course)

    Page 169:  changed “not” to “now” (now know that I did)

    Page 172:  added missing quotation mark (such a long
    telegram.”)

Page 209:  changed “Virgina” to “Virginia” (in Virginia,
save,)

Page 217:  changed “it” to “in” (harm in it)

Page 217:  added missing quotation mark (raised with
niggers around him."”)

Page 245:  removed superfluous quotation marks from end
of two lines (Yass, Jedge, drunk. Always drunk.)
(he come so fast he untook the do’ off’n
de hinges; den ’e begins—­“)