THE
BROTHER CLERKS;

A TALE OF NEW-ORLEANS.

BY XARIFFA.

NEW-YORK:
DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU-STREET.
1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857,
BY DERBY & JACKSON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for
Southern District of New-York.


THE BROTHER CLERKS.


CHAPTER I.

There, stranger lips shall give the greeting,
There, stranger eyes shall mark the meeting;
While the bosom, sad and lone,
Turns its heavy heart-beats home.