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Updated: June 1, 2025
The town was not large nor modern enough for gas, and the dark street was only lighted here and there by a shop of more pretension; the plate-glass of the enterprising draper, with the light veiled by shawls and ribbons, the 'purple jars, green, ruby, and crimson of the chemist; and the modest ray of the grocer, revealing busy heads driving Saturday-night bargains.
At log-rollings, quiltings, and Saturday-night frolics, he was the first and the most admired.
The principal stores of the small town, the one hotel and the post-office were connected by a covered walk which formed a sort of arcade, so that the men lounging against doorways or tip-tilted in chairs seemed in a sort of gallery from which they surveyed the Saturday-night crowd which paraded the street. Jane folded up the cloth which covered her basket and displayed her wares.
He came into great demand for the Saturday-night balls. When the courier with a red kerchief on a wand came galloping round, the day before, from île to île, for these descendants of a maritime race call their homestead groves islands, to tell where the ball was to be, he would assert, if there was even a hope of it, that 'Thanase was to be the fiddler.
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