The Brother Clerks

The Brother Clerks: A Tale of New Orleans by Mary Ashley Townsend is about two young brothers who are setting off on marvelous seaside adventures while their mother waits patiently at home for their return. Excerpt: «A September sun was casting its parting rays far over the dull waters of the Mississippi, as a steamer, with the steady course, plowed her way through the thick waves and „rounded to“ at the thronged and busy wharf of New Orleans. Upon her deck, apart from all other passengers, stood two youths gazing with anxious eyes on the vast city spread out before them. The taller and elder of the two bore upon his brow the flush of his twentieth summer.»