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Cresswell and Stillings had a long conference, and when Stillings hastened away he could not forbear cutting a discreet pigeon-wing as he rounded the corner. He had been promised the backing of the whole Southern delegation in his schemes. That night Teerswell called on him in his modest lodgings, where over hot whiskey and water they talked.
Here, you fellers who's got the cleanest pan?" Half a dozen men washed out their pans, and hurried off with them. Toledo selected one, put in dirt and water, and handed it to Miss Brown. "Thar you are, marm, but I'm afeared you'll wet your dress." "Oh, that won't harm," cried Miss Brown, with a laugh which caused one enthusiastic miner to "cut the pigeon-wing."
Frie dig ved lifvet," &c., and so he sang, cut a pigeon-wing or two, and proceeded to knot and double knot the money in a corner of his pocket-handkerchief. "Come and take a swim!" said Peder, reappearing. "I can swim ever since I fell into the water. I tumbled off the pier, you must know, and down I went.
Then this Dandie cut a sort of double pigeon-wing, gave a short bark, put his crooked, dirty little feet on the stranger's knees, insinuated his cool and expressive nose into an unresisting hand, and wagged his stump of a tail with all his loving might. It was the longed-for touch of a vanished paw, the lick of a tongue that was still.
"I have seen the Ku Klux quarter mile long and two breasted on horses. They scared me so bad I never had no experiences with them. They run my uncle in. He was a big dancer. One time they made him dance. He cut the pigeon-wing for them. That was the name of what he danced. "I never was sold. I was give way. One of the Wades married into the Mitchell family. Mama belong to the Wades.
Annie and Parker applauded his unexpected steps, and the children began to shriek in delight. "Now we has it!" exclaimed Sam, removing the instrument from between his lips, and panting from his exertions. "Now we skates down de floor. Now, turn again and back-along. I's a-comin', child'en I's a-comin'. See me dance Jim Crow! Here I comes and dere I goes! Now, de pigeon-wing "
Why, 'tis less than a half-hour ago they turned me out o' that very place. You and in that state! Oh, be ashamed o' yourself!" But just then a patient behind Clatworthy set up a yell so full of terror that even the doctor slewed round his head and splashed more mud over his hair, all combed as it was in full pigeon-wing style. "Bill!" said Mr. Jope, sharp-like. "Bill Adams!
Awaiting the inspection, soldiers on leave of absence mingle with the commoners, partake of the refreshments, including the black-strap, and nod their plumes or rattle their swords while they dance the "double shuffle" or "cut a double pigeon-wing" on the platforms, to the great wonder of the crowd. When the regiment gathers itself together it is a sight to behold.
He cut a pigeon-wing, twirled around with an imaginary banjo, and sang in a quaint minor: Did you ever see the devil, With his pitchfork and ladle, And his old iron shovel, And his old gourd head? O, I will go to meetin', And I will go to meetin', Yes, I will go to meetin', In an old tin pan.
The procession, now in full blast, demands the carmagnole, and the Convention consents; even some of the deputies descend from their benches and cut the pigeon-wing with the merry prostitutes. To wind up, the Convention decrees that it will attend that evening the fete of Reason and, in fact, they go in a body.
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