He didn't wait to run down the log, but leaped to the ground, and had his teeth in the animal's throat before the echoes of my rifle were done dancin' around among the mountains.

So would H. WARD BEECHER dancin' 'shoo-fly' along with DAN BRYANT.

There I lay on the floor, puffin' and blowin' like a steem ingine, while the hull army was dancin' a war dance around my prostrate figger, and the old Kernal was cuttin' down a double shuffle on the wash-stand, which made the crockery rattle.

"Well, you see, ma'am"the Colonel's smile was charming in spite of his wild beard"we've done such a lot o' dancin' latelydone nothin' else for forty days; and after seven hundred miles of it we're just a trifle tired, ma'am.

Hit'd pleasure me to think some gal's feet was dancin' in them thar slippers.

Yew seen me dancin' jest naow, tew.

: Beauty dancin' all around me, music ringin' everywhere, Like a weddin' celebrationwhy, I've plumb fergot my care An' the tasks I should be doin' fer the rainy days to be, While I'm huggin' the delusion that God made this day fer me.

The flames are full o' pictures that keep dancin' to an' fro, Bringin' back the scenes o' gladness o' the happy long ago, An' the whole wide world is silent an' I tell myself just this

Old squire hain't no bowels, I tell yeu, and the deacon knows he hain't: and I tell you it keeps the deacon dancin' lively as corn on a hot shovel.

a little later Charles Egbert Craddock's (1850- ) The Dancin' Party at Harrison's Cove (May, 1878, Atlantic) and The Star in the Valley (November, 1878, Atlantic).

There on the thresholdstood "Momma." "I kind of see," she drawled, "why Sheila don't take no interest in dancin'!"

de old sinner use to go on drinkin', swearin', dancin', fightin'!

Ban's playin' from war-ship, all merry drinkin', dancin'.

So away I wint acrass the yard, an' it's there the fun was goin' on, soldiers marchin', and fiddlers playin', and monkeys dancin', an' every kind ov diversion, the same as ourselves here at Donnybrook Fair, only it lasts all the year round, from mornin' till night, I'm tould.

"When I come to the house, in I wint, bowin' an' doin' my manners in the most genteelest way to all the grand lords an' ladies that was there, folleyin' their own divarsion, the same as thim that was in the yard, every way they likeddhrinkin', an' singin', an' playin' ov music, and dancin' like mad!

"Well, it could na be a full quarter past twelve, when I sees a lightin' on the wall befoore me, as if something took fire behind, and the shadas o' the bed, and the chair, and my gown, that was hangin' from the wall, was dancin' up and down on the ceilin' beams and the yak pannels; and I turns my head ower my shouther quick, thinkin' something must a gone a' fire.

Wen de niggers see how fine Mars Jeems gwine treat 'em, dey all tuk ter sweethea'tin' en juneseyin' en singin' en dancin', en eight er ten couples got married, en bimeby eve'ybody 'mence' ter say Mars Jeems McLean got a finer plantation, en slicker-lookin' niggers, en dat

en dey wuz fiddlin' en dancin' en funnin' en frolic'in' fum sundown 'tel mawnin'.

Dis yer Primus wuz de livelies' han' on de place, alluz a-dancin', en drinkin', en runnin' roun', en singin', en pickin' de banjo; 'cep'n' once in a w'ile, w'en he 'd 'low he wa'n't treated right 'bout sump'n ernudder, he'd git so sulky en stubborn dat de w'ite folks could n' ha'dly do nuffin wid 'im.

s on de plantation cussin' en gwine on wid dere dancin' en foolishness, he use' ter tell 'em 'bout religion en jedgmen'-day, w'en dey would haf ter gin account fer eve'y idle word en all dey yuther sinful kyarin's-on.

Fiddlin an dancin wont do it.

Yer'll neber git ter hebben by loafin, pitchin cents, an dancin Juba!

Lots-a time dey'd come while us was a-dancin' an' a-havin' a big time.

"Thar was plenty dancin' 'mong'st darkies on Marse George's place an' on ones nearby.

The rabbits coom dancin' round us, an' th' birds fly ower we'r 'eads when the leet cooms.