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make your eyes stick out to see a French 

 dance." 



Guides. " Come, now," they all shouted, " show 

 us how it is done ; we all want to see. Give us one 

 of your tip-top French dances. Come, now." 



" Well, fellows," said Everitt, giving us the wink 



as he tuned his violin, " wdiat say you, shall we 



show our friends how to • dance a real, swinging 



. French dance ? If so, shall we put Hubbard or 



Southwick on the floor?" 



" 0, Southwick by all means ! " shouted Burns. 

 " No disparagement to Hubbard, but Southwick is 

 the man ; especially if he will give us the dance 

 he danced last summer on our fishing-trip ' Down 

 East.' " So it was arranged, and Southwick took 

 the hint and the floor. 



Now Southwick was the best dancer there ; that 

 is, he covered the most ground. His performance 

 was the theme of universal remark. His style 

 was superb. There was a certain abandon in it, 

 which few Americans could rival. I know of but 

 one word which can at all describe Southwick 

 when dancing ; it is — omnipresent. This epithet 

 is moderately accurate. 



The room was some thirty-five feet long, but he 

 was often at both ends of it at .the same time. If 



K rivet the attention of the audience is success, 

 y friend certainly achieved it. There was but 

 le thought on the part of the whole company 

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