THE DEAD URTL Els
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Waggery, like every thing else, seems
to have its season. Extensive so,cs have
been recently run in Boston, New York,
and Philadelphia, and now the scene is
changed to new Orleans. On Sunday two
well known humorsts went on board the
schooner Fancy, from Nassau, and deemlng
that they saw something there on whic b
to exercise their own fancy and the as
tonishment Of others, Immediately laid the
train for joke, or rather, for thrilling
tale. Approaching a gentleman who has
both credulity and humanity large, as the
phrenologsts say, they indulged in GESTURES
Of mingled surprise and sensibility, accom-
panied with such words and phrases as
" shocking -" must have experienced
great suffering p" so many, but that
the weather is so cold, might create a
plague III the city %" Is there no mu-
nicipal law to prevent their being brought
into the city Dds there"


"Why gentlemen" said their friend,
you seem excited. What is the matter ?
what have you seen' You look almost
as fear-stricken and as surprised as Mar
celus and Bernardo, when they, distill-
ed almost to jelly with the act Of fear did
see the ghost of Denmark's majesty
What, ! ask again, is the matter'" One
Of the humorists removed his crooked
ended ebony cane from his right hand to
his left hand, slowly put his kid-gloved
fingers into the pocket Of his paletot, and
drawing forth his white cambria handker-
chief, he passed it few times over his
face and forehead act preparatory, as it
seemed, necessary to nerve him for the
revelation he was about to make.


"Well," said he, in reply to the ques-
tons put to him by the gentleman they
had met "well, we have just been on
board the schooner Fancy, laying over
there at the picayune tier, and we there
saw sight to which, even in yellow fever
time, we have never seen parallel Thir-
ty--(here his words became too difficult
for utterance) thirty-two dead bodies were
stretched upon the deck!"


Thirty-two dead bodies!" said his
friend, in tone that would require the
largest kind Of note Of exclamation to
ds6ne IT," thiry-two dead bodies on