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If the chief of the party telegraphs you that some great division is coming on with respect to some important question, you go up, find the seat with your name on it, sit down, and, when your name is called, you shout 'yes' or 'no, according to the party's views, and then you travel home again, and make your famous 'Lipto cheese." "I have no intention of becoming a voting machine."
"Dem ain't de 'soshuts fur you chil'en." "We don't want ter 'soshate with 'em, Mammy; we only want ter look at 'em play 'Monkey Moshuns' and 'Lipto' and 'The Lady You Like Best, and hear Jim pick the banjo, and see 'em dance; can't we go? PLEASE! It's warm weather now, an' er moonshiny night; can't we go?"
The middle man or woman was always selected for his or her skill in taking off the different characters; and when they were clever at it, the game was very amusing to a spectator. After one or two games of "Monkey Moshuns," some one proposed they should play "Lipto," which was readily acceded to. All joined hands, and formed a ring around one in the middle, as before, and danced around, singing,
'It seems to me, Jónás, I said, 'that you wander about the next world, too, to buy "ole clo'," and bought that umbrella there of Pál Gregorics. At which he smiled, and said he had not gone as far as that yet, for he only kept to the two counties of Zólyom and Hont, and had divided the neighboring counties among his sons; Móricz had Trencsin and Nyitra, Számi had Szepes and Liptó, and the youngest, Kóbi, had only last week been given Bars, but they none of them intended to go into the next world until they were obliged to."
"Lipto, lipto fi-yi-yi; Lipto, lipto, hyear am I, Er holdin' uv dis goldin' crown, An' I choose my gal fur ter dance me down." "An' I choose my man fur ter dance me down." "Lipto" was followed by "De One I Like de Bes'," which was a kissing game, and gave rise to much merriment.
"Lipto, lipto, jine de ring; Lipto, lipto, dance an' sing; Dance an' sing, an' laugh an' play, Fur dis is now er halerday." Then, letting loose hands, they would all wheel around three times, singing, "Turn erroun' an' roun' an' roun';" then they would clap their hands, singing, "Clap yer han's, an' make' em soun';" then they would bow their heads, singing, "Bow yer heads, an' bow 'em low;"
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