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wine around was the extent of their festivities--but even in the midst of an unexplored and dangerous wilderness Frenchmen could not forget their "farewell to flesh." Thenceforth, under ten flags, the annual observance of this ancient holiday in New Orleans, the Carnival Capital of the U. S., in Mobile, the Mother of the Mistick Krewes, and in Biloxi, whose founders brought it to our shores, has developed into one of the nation's most popular attractions. ("Down South", February 1960) (MJS VII 00388)