The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-27
AFRoLlc DOWN IN GEORGIA.
How the Girls and Boys Used to Amuso
Themselves in the Olden Time.


How the Girl. and Boys Used to Amuss
Themselves in the Olden Time.
After the writer hae! grown some older and
bad been regularly ado1ted in tho family Of
s.we IN and ran with the boys he was al
lowed al the privileges Of the young men Of
the community and Was told tooeonsider him.
self ut home, which he did wit1 a good will
On a certain occasion it was decided by the
young ladies and gentlemen to have n frolic
at J. VS., and was warned to be on hand
with a few pounds of sugar for sweetening
and couple Of skeins Of silk for fiddle strings
Strings were scarce about here then, and they
asked you a quarter apiece for them I was
on hand at TIC time appointed with the sweet
ening and the silk and ready to goafter my
agaL" II WIS different then from now. If
you carried no partner with you, you had to
take the chances, Is every man had the exclu-
sivc right to his own partner. When I got
there she was ready with new hon1espun
dress which had never been worn. /, Of
course, praised the check, ard the stripe, and
the fit 1t only took six yards Of cloth to
make girl dress in those days. But she
announced that she was ready to start and
out we went. / jumped upon Bari, Mill. She
Lit up behind mo and caught a good hold.
And that pony might rear, but she was there
il / did not come off Away we went, and
came in sight of ]. VS. about undown. The
crowd was gathering in rapidly. but no fun
had commenced. As we rode up some OF tho
girls sung out:
"Now we viii have some fun Here comes
j. and his gal"
My partner rolled OFF like bag OF rolls. /
tied my pony to fresh sapling and we went
in. The girls all yelled out:
why, here comes j." ike they did not
know 1 was coming, and that l was always
on hand at every frolic.
Now we will have a reel" they said. "Did
you bring the silk"
Certainly. Did you ever know me to fail."
The old lady wanted to know where the
sweetening was, as she wanted it for the
"gals" w. b. spoke up and said by all
means give it To the gals we would get it
back in kissing them. We took our partners,
away went the fiddle and on went the dance
"a long one We danced for q while and
then we would play awhile. odd Sister
Pheby.' Johnny Brown It rains and it
halls The Londen bridge is breaking down.
and The big cat kicked out the little cats
eye wero among the favo-ite plays. The
beauty of it was every play wound up with
a rain of kisses. 1t was glorious frolic.
The kissing made all hands feel like they were
at home. The writer made small mis-
take and liked to have caused trouble by
merely an oversight. We We're playing a
play where kissing was mixed up srnartly-
One young lady was using tobacco ana snuH
freely. Her tooth brush was in her mouth
and little stream of amber ran down at
each corner. kissed her on the cheek. She
stopped the song and yelled out:
u. is not playing fair. He kissed me on
tho check
begged her pardon and meekly asked her
to hold her face around. Doing SO l bussed
her squarely in the mouth. But this restored
peace and the frolic went on w. B. was in
his right element. He called all the sets and
arranged all the couples. No froie could get
on without him Uncle Jack was there, too,
and along toward the morning hours he
wanted to dance. We began to So signs of
red-eye. Men began gstting noisy, dancinG
stronger, and betting on their manhood, and
finally wound up in q little row; but with a
few skinned heads and some bruises, about
day all made for their partners and carried
them home to think and fix for another frolic
soon.-Franklyn (Ga-) News.