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Be a heap o' dancin' did to-night," he would say, as he bowed the guests into the hall. At ten o'clock the brilliantly-lighted parlors were filled, and presented the appearance of a garden of flowers variously colored. There were merry, laughing voices, graceful forms, young and happy faces, forming the light and shade of the picture presented to the eye. The ponderous figure of Mrs.
He wanted others to see how beautiful he was in a dress suit; so he joined dancin' clubs and began goin' to all the balls that was given in town. Soon he began to neglect his family. Then he took to drinkin', and didn't pay any attention to his political work in the district. The end came in less than a year. He was dismissed from the department and went to the dogs.
Have I a deacon by my side or haven't I?" But Josiah seemed calm and even gay sperited under my two reproachful orbs that poured their search lights into his very soul, and he sez: "From all I hear it hain't a wicked dance at all, but jest a pretty dancin' party down in the parlor, jined in by men and wimmen and their children and mebby their grand-children, and it is always so sweet," sez he, "to see a man and his grand-children dancin' together.
'I oh, your lovely hat! Put it down, Archie, darlin'. Put it down! "Archibald had been doin' a little cruisin' on his own hook, and he'd dug up Mike's shiny beaver where it had been dropped in the hall. Now he was dancin' round with it, bangin' it on the top as if it was a drum. "'Put it down, PLEASE! pleads Margaret. 'Twas plain that that plug was a crown of glory to her.
They stayed up late dhrinkin' an' carousin' an' dancin' jigs till wurruds come up between th' Kerry Mickrobes an' thim fr'm Wexford; an' th' whole party wint over to me left lung, where they cud get th' air, an' had it out.
When a farmer's lookin' for a home for his family and stock 't ain't no use to show him a dance hall. The only dancin' a Maine farmer ever does is dancin' round to git his livin' out o' the earth; that keeps his feet flyin', fast enough." "Well," said Gilbert, "I think if you can put the rent cheap enough so that we could make the necessary repairs, I think my mother would consider it."
In the silence which followed the child spoke in her high little treble with a grave elation. "They're here, Piper Tim, all the river fog in the valley is full of them, dancin' and singin' so gay-like to cheer up the poor hills. An' whist!
"Learn her all you want to," he said magnanimously to Miss Lucinda, who negotiated the arrangement. "I ain't got but two children, her and Tom. He's just like me don't know a blame thing but business; but Floss " his bosom swelled under his checked vest "she's on to it all. I pay for everything you get into her head. Dancin', singin', French all them extries goes."
We're goin' to have some country dancin' an' then serve the coffee an' sing 'Auld Lang Syne, an' it's my opinion we sha'n't be home 'fore two o'clock. Ain't it just grand!"
I shall not show you the picture any more if it makes you cry like that," she added half playfully. "Not always, chile," Chloe said, wiping away her tears, "but jes dis here mornin' Christmas mornin', when she was always so bright and merry. It seems only yesterday she went dancin' about jes like you." "Yes, mammy dear, but she is with the angels now my sweet, pretty mamma!"
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