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Show Dancing In the Old Days. Dancing in the woods was the olt, manner In the classic times and myth-ology myth-ology tells of the worship thus paid by the pagans to the gods. The poets sang of it. The priests of Mars were the principal dancers in the sacred rites to that deity. There was also n,H r"hgtlous dancine Eluded to in the Old Testament, as when David danced before the ark to express his joy and that of his people, and there were the dances of the Druids round the al tars and the mysterious stones thNeVer,',PerhapS' ln the htory of he world, was dancing more popular than it Is today-not even in the pleas ant time when in England, Ireland and France the people danced on the I green. Oliver Goldsmith, travel ng I on foot, paid his way by piaying or the dancers on his flute. |