Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Touthfal Spanish hero is performing a bolero His vagaries fill the bashful with surprise,And when coons among the mangoes try to execute fandangoes Prudes and pedants sometimes turn away their eyes ;But wThen Anglo-Saxon dancers once get going in The Lancers, Things proceed at such a very rapid rateThat the antics of Salome seem quite commonplace, quite home-y And When some poor old fogey flounders, mid a scrum ofyouthful boundersWho awake the sleeping chaprons with their shouts,Other vetrans cease competing, as they realise, retreating,Why su
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . Touthfal Spanish hero is performing a bolero His vagaries fill the bashful with surprise,And when coons among the mangoes try to execute fandangoes Prudes and pedants sometimes turn away their eyes ;But wThen Anglo-Saxon dancers once get going in The Lancers, Things proceed at such a very rapid rateThat the antics of Salome seem quite commonplace, quite home-y And When some poor old fogey flounders, mid a scrum ofyouthful boundersWho awake the sleeping chaprons with their shouts,Other vetrans cease competing, as they realise, retreating,Why such parties may be sometimes known as and daughters join with vigour in the cakewalksof the nigger,In a barn-dance or in two-steps or Strathspeys,And though skirts be torn to tatters, no one cares, fornothing matters, Nowadays!44 Dancing MOBAL. Now the moral o! my story, which I dwell on con wmovi Is that dancing is no mere gymnastic game;While for any one desiring either romping or per piring There are numerous pursuits fchat I could name. And the youth who yells and hollers and is forced to change In collars Should not ever be permitted to take partIn the dance which (for the last time, let me say) is not a pastime, But an Art. 45 No. IX.—AT SEA
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