Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-03-30

compromise on the hand, Haich he
shakes awkwardly, muttsfing some
thing unintelligiblv, una,e LIZ seems
fully as embarrassed a. ne, ana remarks
that it looks as though it inig lit rain
Jack says yes, stands hrst Oh one lee
then on the other, and liaa:ly snamb,es
away to the nearest vacant seat ] his
sort of thing is going on All over the
barge for the first fifteen or twenty
minutes. Then the band strikes up a
waltz Everybody taps a foot for
several bars, Jimmies arm slips about
LIS waist.
"Say, Liz" he says Lets set her
goin'."
They balance moment and then
srart oil out of time. Jimmie bumps
! into girl seated on a bsacf, esfIv
remarks, f" For gdwd Sakel" int doe.n |
seem to mean it. After Two or three
attempts Jimmie and Liz succeed in
catching the time and swing oil down
the lane between the rows OF benches.
All the girls watch Liz critically AS
she passes they make audible COM
ments on her dress and appearance.
In a minute, however half dozen
other young men have swung their
girls on to the floor and are capering
about Pretty soon the clear space is
filled with couples. who go whiriing
along around the narrow track until
the music stops.
A man in white apron ru>les upas
they sit down and cries out: Who
wants waiter?" He gets orders for
more beer than he can possibly bring
and comes back with both hands full.
Liz and Jimmie both have beer after
Jimm.e has told her for dead fact
sasspriila aint no good; it'll make you
sick"
The formality gradually wears off
and when the music strikes up each
fellow simply grabs the girl he wants
to dance with and plunges out into the
floor with her. The narrowness of the
dancing space keeps the couples bump
ing into each other at every turn.
There is shrek of laughter at every
bump Down stairs man with a
fiddle plays jigs, and presently Liz and
Jimmie 90 down there, and Liz gets to
iigging with fat woman, while the
crowd gather about and encourage
them. Liz dances the fat woman
down, and Jimmie is SO proud that he
wants to match her against all corners
at jig dancing right then and there
but she says: FoS gawd sakep and
pulls him away to bench in the vi
cinity of the ice, and makes him fan
her with her hat.
In few minutes Jimmie goes down
stairs and has some more beer. When
he returns Liz is dancing with some
one else. Jimmie waits until she sits
down. and he hovers over her second,
and then says, solemnly:
"Say, who brung you here?"
SWhy do YOU want to ask that fors"
"Well | brung you here that's why"
"What of it," 1
"Well b-ung yon here, that's what
IF it"
"I don't care if you did. q
al don't care neither; but | just
want you to remember that | brung
rou here; there didn't nobody else
'rung you, and don't you forget it"
"Oh, for gawd sake!" said Liz i'm
We'll, dat is all right" retorted
immie in a grandly gloomy tone
which bespeaks an over-supply Of beer.
BY this time it is nearly two O'Clock
nd the barge has been on the water
ver three hour. The vivacity of the
arty has worn off, and there is not
alf as much dancing as at first. Pret-
Y soon Jimmie heap droops over to-
Yard LIS shoulder and presently it
ests there while he sleeps She looks
nnoyed and SAYS 'For gawd sake!"
nut one of her hands steals around to
lasp one of Jimmie's under his coat
nd she glowers angrily at girl who
SKIS her s'what she's got there"
When twilight begius lamp with
reflector is fighted at each end of
le deck, That is all the light, Pres
ntly somebody treads heavily on some
ne elses toes in the dance. There is
n oath, a few words, the sound of
low and rush. Jimmie catches {
ght of the combatants and begins ]
auling off his coat.
Here Liz" he exclaims, g hold dat
pat till smash dat feller's jaw"
"Oh, Chimmie don't fight" scream
j Liz, wildly, pulling him away.
Lemme me go; dat felIer is my
lend and l amt goin' to see him lick