Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-02
kFaoLic DOWN IN GEORGIA.
How the Girls and Boys Used to Anus
Therns selves in the OIden Time.

How the Girls and Boys Used to Amus4
Themselves in tho OIden Time.
After the writer had grown some older and
had been regularly adopted in the family Of
1--WE uns, " and ran with the boys he was al
lowed all the privileges Of the young men Of
the community and was told TO consider HIM
self q: home, which he did with good will
On 4 certain occasion it was decided by the
young ladies and gentlemen to have frolic
4; J. VS., and / was warned to be on hand
with few pounds of sugar for sweetening
and couple of sl,eins of silk for fiddle strings.
Strings were scarce about here then, and they
asked you q quarter apiece for them / was
on hand at the time appointed with the sweet
ening and the silk and ready to go after my
gal Il was different then from now. II
you carried no partner with you, you had &c
take the chances, as every man had the exclu-
sive right 20 his own partner. When l got
there she was ready with new honespun
dress which had never been worn l, of
course, praised the check, and the stripe, and
the fit. II only took six yards OF cloth to
make a girl a dress in those days. But she
announced that she was ready TO start and
out We went l jumped upon Bark Mill. She
Lit up behind me and caught a good hold.
And that pony might rear, but she was there
If did not come off Away we went, and
came in SIGHT of ]. WIS about shutdown The
crowd WAS gathering in rapidly. but no fun
had commenced. As we rode up some Of the
girls sung out:
Nov we will have some fun Here comes
J. and his gall
My partner rolled off like a bag of rolls. ]
tied my pony to n fresh sapling and We went
in The girls all yelled out:
why, here comes j. like they did not
know was coming, and that l was always
on hand at every frolic.
Now we will have a REEL they said Sid
You bring the silk
Certainly Did you ever know me to failir
The old lady wanted to know where the
swee,cning was. as she wanted il for the
gals " B. spoke up and said by all
means give 1t 10 t.ie gals" we would get il
back in kissing them We took our partners
away went the Eddie and on went tho dance
a long one. We danced for a while and
then We would play awhile old Sister
Pheby.' Johnny Brown Ii rains and il
halls The Londen bridge is breaking down,
and The big cat kicked out the little cats
eye were among the favorite plays Tho
beauty Of if WAS every play wound up with
Iii u f-4SSsN IL NsAS a fseAitAS AAcie-
The kissing made all hands feel like they were
al home The writer made n small mis-
take and liked to have caused trouble by
merely an oversight We were playing .
play where kissing was mixed up sinartly.
One young lady WAS using tobacco and snufi
freely. Her toothbrush was in her mouth
and little stream Of amber ran down ri
each corner. kissed her on the cheek She
stopped the song and yelled OUT
j. is not playing fair. He kissed me GO
the chsek.r
begged her pardon and meekiy asked her
20 hold her face around Doing so bussed
her squarely in the mouth. But this restored
peace and the frolic went on W. b. was in
his right element He called oil the sets and
arranged all the couples No frolic could get
on without him Uncle Jack was there, too,
and along toward the morning hours be
wanted to dance We began to So signs o
red-eye. Men began cutting NOISY, dancing
stronger. and betting on their manhood, and
finally wound up in little row: but with .
few skinned heads and some bruises, about
day all made for their partners and carried
them home TO think and fix for another frohc
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