Show A LONG DANCE an old time english actor who skipped fo front X london rid t to Wor norwich wih the longest dance on record is probably that of william kem kemp P an actor of some celebrity in ih the reign oi of queen elizabeth lie he was a comedian and danced all the way from london to norwich he was attended by a a servant and an overseer and the boston globe thinks it was doubtless a tjong forham that there q wera pa no omnibuses omni buses or police then for they would probably have imposed more impediments ments in the way of his progress than did the country people lie ile started with several presents of groats and crooked sixpences for luck and laden with these danced to stratford without rest resl there many invited him to drink but the notes of the tabor cut short his jocularities and he pranced off to ilford where he had to reject another carouse that was offered to him from ilford he ha danced in the moonlight to a point near bromford romford Eo Ro and that ended his hia first days exploit subsequently he went in for early risings to avoid market people and though suffering from a sprain of the hip which he be received he danced it well again to the delight of the crowd that accompanied him some tw two hundred in number when he reached chelmsford he was so exhausted that he be could not dance at all for a time and his fourth days dance was a hard one thick woods w ds on each side and lanes full of deep deep holes so that sometimes he says he skip tup to the waist which must have placed him in a woeful plight he rested at braintree Brain tree and danced three miles off his next days journey his next nest stop was at berry where a butcher tried to dance with him but in halt half a mile he was tired and had to give in he danced the ten miles from bury to thetford in three hours ills his next nest stage was wai to rockland from which point po int his post attempted to accompany him but lay down from fatigue at the end of two fields when he reached norwich he had to dance in and out of the city twice for his overseer missed him in the crowd and made him do the distance over again to avoid any possibility I 1 i I 1 of error |