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"Colonel," said a visitor to the camp, "your sentinels are sociable fellows. I saw No. 5 over at the end of his beat entertaining No. 6 with some fancy manual of arms. Afterwards, with equal amiability, No. 6 executed a most artistic cake-walk for his friend." It must be remembered here that this colonel's men were typical Southern negroes, literate and illiterate, and all new to military life.

Then amidst cheers Flossie and another friend whom she called from a distant table danced a cake-walk danced very gracefully, and with a marvellous display of rainbow skirts. She came back breathless, and threw herself down by Guy's side. "Give me some more wine!" she panted. "How close the place is!" The younger Frenchman, who had scarcely spoken, leaned over. "An idea!" he exclaimed.

"Oh, papa," cried Eddy, in a rapture, "do dance it sometime, won't you?" "I'll tell you what we will all do," cried Major Arms, with enthusiasm, "we'll all go to the City to-morrow night, and we'll see that dance. I tell you it's worth it. It's a queer thing, utterly unlike anything I have ever seen. It is a sort of cross between a cake-walk and an Indian war-dance. Jove! how it carried me back!"

He took two short steps, two long steps, gave a jump, took three more short steps, and ended with a combination of step and jump, during which the ball emerged from behind his back and started on its slow career to the wicket. The whole business had some of the dignity of the old-fashioned minuet, subtly blended with the careless vigour of a cake-walk.

The book does it better; we will fall back on the book and have a cake-walk: "It was easy to divine that some restless grief possessed him; Mary herself was not unlearned in the lore of pain.

When I went down the road toward the new bridge and looked over into the garden, I saw a couple of persons executing a cake-walk, and an old man with one leg off was in the cemetery that surrounds the ruined church, reciting selections from Burns.

'Stay away from it. I'll tell you when I gets ready to level. You can't bet them bookies nothin' they're wise to him. "'Look-a-here, Bud! says Joe. 'That bird'll cake-walk among them crabs. No jock can make him lose, 'n' not get ruled off. "'Leave that to me, I says. "Just as I figgers my hoss opens up eight-to-five in the books.

The 'Morisco' they called it; and it was much admired; and the fashion of it spread throughout Spain scaled the very Pyrenees, and invaded France. To the 'Maurisce' succumbed 'tout Paris' as quickly as in recent years it succumbed to the cake-walk. A troupe of French dancers braved the terrors of the sea, and, with their scarves and their bells, danced for the delectation of the English court.

The horses are at the Leger stand now, whips are out, and three horses seem to be nearly abreast; in fact, to the Oracle there seem to be a dozen nearly abreast. Then a big chestnut sticks his head in front of the others, and a small man at the Oracle's side emits a deafening series of yells right by the Oracle's ear: "Go on, Jimmy! Rub it into him! Belt him! It's a cake-walk! A cake-walk!"

Always with the same inscrutable meekness of countenance, each night he methodically danced the cake-walk at Maxim's or one of the Montemarte restaurants, to the cheers of acquaintances of many nationalities, to whom he offered libations with prodigal enormity. Ah, how tired I was of it, and how I endeavoured to discover a means to draw him to the museums, and to Notre Dame and the Pantheon!