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Show Street Comer Sage 'Molurn Da ncin' ' i 'Speakiri' nf crazes," remarked the i-vige, - t i j i s !:e:e modurn dancin' craze is the v. ust. Vvl.y you've even get-ta take lesions to lar.'i t'do 'em. ' V'lie;i J .i uz a voting feller, all the dancin' lessons enny-hudy needed wis?, somebody to tell 'em the diiler ent cull::. Give me, in tliein days, a i;ood ca llcr air" a I eher at could play ole dance tunes on a tiddle and there v. nzn'f iiobi (!y 'at wuz rarje. I nler on a danciir floor 'an me, if I do say 'I m'self . " Mor'an once I've started in dane-i dane-i i' at seven o'clock an' dance till sunup sun-up next, moniin'. 'Member one div.ice We stayed so late 'at th' feller's w ife 'at tvuz givin' the dance had to go tuh work an' git breakfast fer us. A fcl 'at lived about a mile up the road liked tuh never got done talkin' a- bout noise we m-jo.e. Them ivuz days j when young folks really had a goi d j t' mo." j The grocer nodded. "Thai's a j mighty good orchestra t'i've got for ; the dance ton; lit," lie remarked. " It may be.;' replied the Sage, ''but seein' as how I ;.nly live a couple 'a doors -from her-:, I hope they don't keep 'em plavin" lill 'leven 'er twelve o'clock. That's plenty late 'null' an' besides I want : .h git some sleep." |