Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-02-06
A WESTERN LETTER.
C0Hched in the Peculiar Char
acteriStic Language of a
WeSteYneY.
BARR CIrY, CoLo., Jan. 27, 1890.

Barr City Is a beautiful little town
eighteen miles north of Denver, an,
is situated on the B. & NJ. railroad
l have made this place my hom
eleven months. Like the clImat
snd people extremely we'll, Their
are plenty of amusements of al
kinds for young society, but / be
lieve the dance is little ahead o.
anything else.
We recently received sn Invitation
to a dance at dry ranch on Boxel
der, small stream eleven miles
west of here, and, sure thing, we
took it IN. VIM. WIseman, James
Cupp and myself, of Westvllle, Mo-,
and James Overton and VIM. John
son, of Carroll county, Mo-, COM
posed our party of Missourians. On
the evening of the dance each of US
took bronco and a cart, bundled
ourselves up with fur caps, overcosts
and lap robes and, with plenty of
"nourishment, took our ladies and
hit the road. We arrived in due
time, were ushered in, relieved of
our wraps and shown into the parlor,
where there were four card tables,
oil al
games of checkers in progress. As
the music had not yet put in an ap-
pearance, my lady and L took a
whirl at casino, and sitter playing a
couple of games the violinist came,
and, much to my surprise, was
yellow Tennessee coon. He laid off
his wraps, backed himself up in a
corner, twisted his fiddle's neck,
spit in its ears and then commenced
TO unwind the hornpipes. Hush
your fuss! The way that nlgger
could play was astonishing. A lady
thumped the organ. l could not
ask for better music. They played
just such tunes as our Muscle Fork
musicians.
We looked on until the Colorado
dudes had danced couple of sets.
They danced just like their backs
were stiff, and no matter how fast
the music, their feet refused to wag.
Then we Missouri boys got out on
the floor. l told the coon we were
from Missouri and for him to give it
to US as rough as he could. He
laughed and turned loose on good
old hornpipe. and we proceeded to
cut the pigeon wing about right. We
were all strangers but our style of
dancing hit the crowds taste 10
gnat's heel, and in less than two
hours the ladies were so badly stuck
on us that they were following us
from one room to another.
We danced until 1880 o'clock,
when we were called in to supper,
and it was as fine supper as i ever
Topped my lips over.
After supper my girl and 1 played
another game of casino, and then
we took another dance. L told the
coon TO give us the Arkansaw Trav-
eler. He grinned and went at it
red-eyed. W;ll Wisemsn called the
changes and We began to sift sand.
In less than two minutes and half
the doors and windows were full of
people of all ages to watch us hit the
buck. They came in from their
games, and the old women, although
very hungry, left their supper, came
in, backed themselves up IN corner
of the room and began to cry, they
were so sorry they were not young.
The old men said we were world
beaters.
AT 3 o'clock the dance wound up
with jig dance by an Irish lady and
myself. But before starting home
we had to kiss all of the young ladies
good night, shake hands with all the
old ladies, and promise to come TO
see their daughters every Sunday.
The msnager of the dance wanted
to pay us for our presence, but 1
told him that we were not built that
way. L. W. c.