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Show Social Distinction. In some parts of the south the darkies are still addicted to the old-style old-style country dance in a big hall, with the fiddlers, banjoists and other musicians mu-sicians on the platform at one end. At one such dance held not long ago in an Alabama town, when the fiddlers had duly resined their bows and taken their places on the platform plat-form the floor manager rose. "Git yo' partners fo' de nex' dance!" he yelled. "All you ladies an' gennul-mens gennul-mens dat wears shoes an' stockin's, take yo' places in de middle of de room. All you ladies an' gennulmens dat wears shoes an' no stockin's, take you' place immejitly behin' dem. An' yo' barefooted crowd, you jes' jig it round in de corners." Lippincott's Magazine. |