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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, " what 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, Southmck 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 

 to rivet the attention of the audience is success, 

 my friend certainly achieved it. There was but 

 one thought on the part of the whole company 



