. Wit, humor and pathos . wing excited about it, be-cause—b-e-c-a-u-s-e they havent. But why? I asked. I want to know an instancewhere a Chinaman has ever shown himself to be adarned fool. Why, Eli, Ive known a Chinaman to secrete twoaces in his sleeves, and when Ive played the threeaces I had secreted in my sleeves, why, thered befive aces out! How absurd! Yes, that was very foolish for the Chinaman, butwhat other cases of foolishness have you seen amongthe Chinamen? I asked. Why, it was only the day before I left Frisco, , that we put some tar and feathers on one ofthem Johnnys, ju
. Wit, humor and pathos . wing excited about it, be-cause—b-e-c-a-u-s-e they havent. But why? I asked. I want to know an instancewhere a Chinaman has ever shown himself to be adarned fool. Why, Eli, Ive known a Chinaman to secrete twoaces in his sleeves, and when Ive played the threeaces I had secreted in my sleeves, why, thered befive aces out! How absurd! Yes, that was very foolish for the Chinaman, butwhat other cases of foolishness have you seen amongthe Chinamen? I asked. Why, it was only the day before I left Frisco, , that we put some tar and feathers on one ofthem Johnnys, just to have a little fun, and then setfire to it to amuse the children, and the darned foolran into a clothes-press and spoiled a dozen of mywifes dresses putting out the fire, though I told himbetter all the time. Dog-on-it, it is enough to makea man lose faith in the whole race! And then that good Californian threw a coloredwaiter out of a fourth story window and went on cut-ting off his coupons. 114 THE DANCING ROUND DANCES. If you see a two-hundred poundman and woman perspiring aroundwith their pompous bodies tossinglightly and springily in the air, armsswaying — keeping good time, andmaking grand Persian salaams for abow in the Lancers, you can setthem down as belonging to the oldTweed-Fisk-Leland-Americus Clubschool. If you see two heated young people tripping fastaway ahead of the music, taking short steps, and jerk-ing through a square dance as if the house was onfire and the set must be completed before any couldtake to the fire-escapes, you can set them down as fromthe plantation districts of the South, or the rural dis-tricts of Pennsylvania and the West. It is the Missis-sippi River steamboat quickstep. If you see a black-eyed youth with long hair and ayoung lady with liquid black eyes, and she has her twohands on the young mans shoulders at full length, andstands directly in front of him, and they both go hop-ping around like Siamese twins with wire spri
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