Their children sat about them and entertained me most pleasantly.

But there isn't one can tell a tale as their father can--'twas he told me this one, though here and there my enthusiasm may have taken liberties.

He knows the history of every old house in the French Quarter; or, if he happens not to know a true one, he can make one up as he goes along.
BELLES DEMOISELLES PLANTATION.
The original grantee was Count----, assume the name to be De Charleu; the old Creoles never forgive a public mention.

He was the French king's commissary.

One day, called to France to explain the lucky accident of the commissariat having burned down with his account-books inside, he left his wife, a Choctaw Comptesse, behind.
Arrived at court, his excuses were accepted, and that tract granted him where afterwards stood Belles Demoiselles Plantation.