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Witness the shows, festivals, frolics, grab-bag parties, kissing bees, cake-walk lotteries, and other abominations unnumbered, that are carried on without shame, under the guise of religion, in the high places of this modern Babylon!
Where all those bullets went to was a matter for anxious speculation amongst us, and the roaring of the lion combined with the reports of the six-shooter to keep us fairly dancing on that wooden floor as if we were practising a cake-walk. A sound of cheering from the crowd outside, swelling momentarily as the neighbourhood awoke to the situation, brought us with a rush to the top of the ladder.
The first two of these are the Uncle Remus stories, collected by Joel Chandler Harris, and the Jubilee songs, to which the Fisk singers made the public and the skilled musicians of both America and Europe listen. The other two are ragtime music and the cake-walk.
This wizening of our features was due to the strain of travel and lack of sleep; we had enough to eat, and I have only mentioned it to help impress the fact that the journey to the Pole and back is not to be regarded as a pleasure outing, and our so-called jaunt was by no means a cake-walk.
This bewilderment lasted but a moment, and he rose from his chair with a spring. "Well, now, play something else give us a bit of rag-time; that last piece has left us all a little dashed try a cake-walk." Clarke interposed. "Miss Lambert does not play those trashy melodies. I consider them essentially irreligious."
A barrel-organ played cake-walk airs in the middle of the road, but it played to an invisible audience. No bearded men danced can-cans around it, shouting merry jests to one another. Solitude reigned. I wait. The duel continues. What grim determination, what perseverance can these Bohemians put into a mad jest!
Triumph and deathless peace, the bugle-call and silence these are the notes of Karnak. Upon the wall of the great court of Amenhotep III. in the temple of Luxor there is a delicious dancing procession in honor of Rameses II. It is very funny and very happy; full of the joy of life a sort of radiant cake-walk of old Egyptian days. How supple are these dancers! They seem to have no bones.
How far away this is from dancing which consists in the main of executing more or less complicated steps "in time" with the music, or such appalling vulgarities as a cake-walk.
One thing, my little baa-lamb'll take a bit o' knockin' out." "Where is he?" asked Silver. "Away on the right there," answered the old man. "Doin' a cake-walk on the next hoss's toes." There was very little trouble at the post. The starter got his field away well together at the first drop of the flag. Only one was left, and that was green.
Phil protested with many grimaces and much nonsense that he "could not sing the old songs now." That he would not "be butchered to make a Roman holiday." But all the time he protested, he was stepping toward the piano in a fantastic exaggerated cake-walk that set his audience to laughing.
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