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young folks to enjoy themselves in
y quiet and social manner. They
at once began to clear the room and
get things into hop shape, for an
old time off hand and general ALL
tound-aud round dance OF the no.
down kind, and the way they sue.
cecdcd can be seen from the follow
ing
Early In the evening the many
GUESTS began TO arrive, aud by eight
the "tnlly sheet" showed TINS
Girls. II, and boys 3, (ncluding
two silent footed Rents.) Plainly
showing deficiency of two Of the
required number to raise dust.
As TIME wore away the fair.sex
seemed To DO increasing, ana il
looked MS n there Was going to be
an overproduction, and hence stag.
nation Of the dance would follow.
And never was the coming. man
looked for With more anxious eyes
than on this OCCASION, and the poet
could have said, and well
or all sad words OF tongue or pom
The suddest are those, we no short
OF men.
In vain did John Daily. the
veteray dancer, try to count quo.
ram, but the motony was only
felieted by the fair and beautiful
Swansdown coiapie$ions that
doomed up from every corner OF the
room. At last tie Gray Haired
Bard, thinking that Emusic hath
power to soothe the savage"
thought it would have power to
bring some OF the bearded sex too,
go he ut once sent forth an old-timc
(appleJ pealing tune which fairly
shook the building from center TO
circumference. However, II did
not act on them like the load stone
does To steel, nevertheless it proved
effective in mannor. Tho ladies
who had been sitting like statues
now began to move their feet ms if
Keeping time with the indiun Tom.
Tom. AS the music WAS like the
corset going to waist, and mankind
Is distant, they resolved to show
the "Horney-handed sons Of toll"
that they were not bchcldlng to
them and The dance would go on
just the SAME. The set WAS called,
and in the absence OF tho Steiner
Sex lady was used, and that che
might be known as tho Right
Bower, kerchief was tied about
the head, The familiar tune of
Pop goes The weasel was called for
and ere they had gotten up steam
enough to pop, pop went one Of tho
violin strings and the concern was
switched for fepafrs. N young
Doc. who had made marty Il Quick
trip, was despatched TO Joseph
Pugh's store for strand of pussys
bowles. and donkef mounted he
gallopcd Oft with all the speed
of the mules fatherly ancestor, and
ftturned only 20 tell them that the
worthy Deacon had closed up, and
was lending his ard To the revival
at the "Brick Church." Pat, who
had remained horsdecombat, now
afose, left off hts osercoat and cap,
and in language anything but par
Iimentary freely Criticised fhe store
keepers, and swofo by all the
tabbies THAT ever danced the Du
Ventfa ON n Midway Plaisance,
that he would erect factory for
the manufacture Of the feline
cntrari string ana ere another
dance he world have a supply Of
stffbg equal to three times the cir
conference of the "Ferris Wheel. !"
"Uncle Bob" thought "what carr /
be cured must be cndufed," so he
hold the bridge with three strings,
while he Rugged them with broken
chords, and seemingly, they were
satisfied, and Notwithstanding all
the obstacIcs( land there we're many)
they say that tbefo never vac a
Spelling Bee" nor never win Sc
any inst yin furnish any parallel
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