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gether and wrote their agent to make 

 another and more tempting bid. This has 

 been done, and whether the second prop- 

 osition will fare better than the first re- 

 mains to be seen. The figure is alluring, 

 but, if accepted, New Orleans will be with- 

 out a wooden Indian to its name. That 

 is to say, without a full-grown wooden 

 Indian. There are others, as already 

 stated, but they are either pigmies in stat- 

 ure or counterfeits in material. Moreover, 

 the art of making wooden Indians is lost. 

 So far as can be learned, there is nobody 

 at present in the business. It has passed 

 into desuetude with the carving of figure- 

 heads for ships. 



The only other old-time wooden effigy 

 of heroic size now in New Orleans is the 

 ancient admiral who has squinted through 

 a sextant at upper Canal Street ever since 

 the year of grace 1856. He was made in 



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