A MINISTER ON WALTZING.
1 The gents encircle their partners! waists with one arm. ' The ladies and gentlemen"; stand close, face to face. ( The gents are very erect and lean a little back. The ladies lean a little forward. (Music.) Now (wrote the Rev. J. Van Blarcom, in the Christian Intelli: gencer) all wheel, whirl, circle, and curl. Feet and heels of gents go rip-rap, tippitytap. Ladies' feet go tippity-tip. Thermal! go rippity, clippity, slippity - tippity, bippity, skippity, hoppity, jumpity, bumpity, thump. Ladies fly of by centrifugal momentum. Gents pull ladies hard and close. They .reel, swing, slide, sling, look tender,, look silly, look dizzy. Feet fly, dresses fly, skirts fly, all fly. It looks tuggity, pullity, squeezity, rubbity rip. The men look like a cross between steelyards and " limberjacks."< The maidens tuck down their chins very low, or raise them exceedingly, high. ' Some smile, , some grin, some giggle, some pout, , some sneer, and all perspire freely. The ladies' faces are brought against those of the men, j or into their bosoms, breast against breast nose against nose, toes against toes. Now they go in again making a sound like, Georgey, porgey, derey, percy, coachey, poachey. This dance is not much, but it's the extras I object to. , -
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Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 36
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208A MINISTER ON WALTZING. Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 36
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