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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Dancing was the principal amusement of our young people of both sexes. Their dances, to be sure, were of the simplest form. Three and four-handed reels and jigs. Country dances, cotillions, and minuets, were unknown. I remember to have seen, once or twice, a dance which was called 'The Irish Trot, but I have long since forgotten its figure."
The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. The adventures of the Yellow Diamond begin with the eleventh century of the Christian era.
But we must leave the "unnumbered, unremembered tribes" of buried creatures which once trod this earth; and speaking only of those now alive, I must tell you that in the first Division of the great class, Mammalia, naturalists place the Quadrumana, or four-handed creatures.
There was no need to urge his party to haste; but it seemed to them all as if they were standing still, so swiftly did the clamor of the apes come upon them. "Down to earth," ordered Grôm sharply, seeing that they must be overtaken before they could reach the open, and realizing that in the tree-tops they could not hope to match these four-handed dwellers of the trees.
"Two to one!" exclaimed Celi. "Send your friend away, and this gentleman will go likewise; at all events, your friend wears a sword, therefore we are two against two." "Yes," said the Frenchman, "let us have a four-handed game." "I do not cross swords with a dancer," said the cutthroat.
In the four-handed game the pair who have the right to serve in the first game shall decide which partner shall do so and the opposing pair shall decide in like manner for the second game.
They were grasping the real situation groping for it, perhaps, but with a clear-sightedness and acumen which urged that a cautious tongue was expedient. If the duplicity was really as four-handed as it seemed, there could be no harm in waiting for the other fellow to blunder into exposure.
Our employers, I know, will very gladly send us up the river to purchase produce, and I dare say you can make arrangements to come with us." I of course said I should be very glad to do so, though I could not then say what my father intended to do after reaching Para. We shot a good deal of game quadruped, four-handed, and feathered.
"We might have a game of pool, if it isn't too late." "You are soon tired of bridge," Selina remarked, reproachfully. "Very well, we will all go into the billiard-room." The men played a four-handed game. Between the shots Selina talked to Brooks. "Were you surprised?" she asked. "Had you heard?" "Not a word. I was astonished," he answered. "You hadn't seen it in the papers either?
Gosh, wasn't the minister mad! He had started to read a hymn and he quit after he read two lines where it said, 'In a game of four-handed euchre, never trump your partner's ace, but rely on the ace to take the trick on suit. Pa was trying to explain how the book came to be there, when the minister and the deacons started out, and then I poured the two quart tin pail full of soft soap on the front step.
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