Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-30 | Page 5 | Dancing Wasn't Wicked When it Saved His Horse

DANCING DAN Nj WASN'T WICKED WHEN iT T SAVED HIS HORSE HORS I MIDDLETOWN l N. N Y Jan 30 If Old OM Joe one of the best I known farmers in Orange county count has hat I changed his lila opinion about dancing Up lip I Ii to toda today ho ito always s maintained that Sat Satan Satan Sa Sa- t tan got most of his recruits in in the ballI ball ball- I loom corn and that ft fI folks who lid td til over o the floor in iii the Ike waltz or two two- I step could cease ceasr- to worry about their nil I tire 11 destination tion Tb The rho fact that a barn Lam lance dance was re- re fo f ii 11 his n a thief I just as the was WIS nh about ut t to annex nn-e nn x- x n a valuable horse accounts for the old tuna man s 's 5 chan change of heart For sonic some weeks past his son R Richard had been teasing him for permission to attend a hop scheduled for last aRt ni night ht Every ery time the youth brought up the subject his fat father r would pull the scriptures on him W Wednesday night ht arrived and Richard declared his intention of going oin Dont Dollt goo go 0 Dick said salt his father Nothing but evil comes of it If you disrespect m my wishes you'll rep repent nt be before be be- fore foro the tho winter i ia is o er over l Sorry Sorry pop s said aid tho son but I promised a certain party I IM Ill d split the I I floor in a good oo ol old fashioned break break- down It was carl early this morning when wIlen Dick reached the old homestead As he drove iii to tho the ham barti he noticed a stran stranger er leading out nut his fathers father's best hest horse Ho ifo jumped lumped from the buggy wb whereupon re pon the stranger er took to his lila heels and escaped The racket awakened tho the old man When hen he lie reached time the barn Lam anti and realized that his sons son's arrival arrill hall had prevented the thc thc theft thet t of a horse he lie said Theres There's lots worse things than dancin dancin dane dane- in Guess you'd better better- im invite le the here her some ni night ht and I Ill I'll 11 shake shakea a le leg mr myself elf