The result was an absence of harmony well compensated by a conspicuous presence of variety--variety of a picturesque and entertaining sort.
All the riders were young gentlemen in fashionable society.

If the reader has been wondering why it is that the ladies of New Orleans attend so humble an orgy as a mule-race, the thing is explained now.

It is a fashion-freak; all connected with it are people of fashion.
It is great fun, and cordially liked.

The mule-race is one of the marked occasions of the year.

It has brought some pretty fast mules to the front.