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Updated: May 13, 2025
Then he plunged again, propelled by the sense of a new responsibility, and for a minute we two performed, unaided and alone, the several different parts of an eight-hand reel. Nevertheless, I relinquished not my hold, for I was truly attached to the fellow, and in due time we made a mile, though I know the cyclometer would have recorded ten.
Of lesser instrumental music, she has written two successful trios. Her piano pieces are many in number, and excellent in quality. Among them is a group of four and eight-hand works for two pianos, as well as duets for a single instrument.
Little by little the timidity began to disappear, and sometimes the brown-skinned girls came in numbers to the white man's dwelling, and submitted themselves to be taught how to dance the cotillion and the eight-hand reel. Then followed the wooing among the flowery prairies; and the white men began to pledge their troths to the dusky girls.
Around the kitchen sat a row of young men and women, and the open sitting-room doorway was crowded with the faces of non-dancing guests who wanted to watch the sets. An eight-hand reel had just been danced and the girls, giddy from the much swinging of the final figure, had been led back to their seats.
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