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This Mardi-Grus pageant was the exclusive possession of !N~ew
Orleans until recently. But now it has spread to Memphis and St.
Louis and Baltimore. It has probably reached its limit. It is a

MABDI-GBAS.

thing which oould hardly exist in the practical North; would cer-
tainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in
[London. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the
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