' Won’t You Join the Dance?’
The ways of dancing men aio indeed manifold and mysterious. There is the man who clasps you uncomfortably tight, and the man who holdß you unnecessarily loose, riding at anchor, so to speak.
There is the man who steers straight into everybody, and the man who seem 3 perpetually searching in the region of your bade for some sort of knob or handle to hold on by. There is the mau who prances gaily round you, and the mau who' circles with such evident agony that you would gladly put in a penny to stop the instrument from working. There is the man who ambles, and the man who slides ; the man who gambols, and the man who collides ! (All unwittingly we have dropped into poetry !) There is the man who selects you because he fancies you can do his step, and the man who never had a step worth doing, and couldn’t have done it if he had. There is the man who dances on his partner's feet in preference to the floor, and, lastly, there is the man who cannot, start without four or five preliminary rushes ending in a hop, skip, and jump.—-Sydney Mail.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 869, 26 October 1888, Page 4
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202'Won’t You Join the Dance?’ New Zealand Mail, Issue 869, 26 October 1888, Page 4
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