. Highways and byways of the South. nall day sing at the church. This all day sing drewtogether the people for ten or twelve miles came on foot, on saddle-horses, and in all sortsof vehicles, and they brought feed for their horses andlunches for themselves, and each one who owned acopy of The Old Christian Harmony brought thatto sing from. Not half the people could get into thechurch, and the surplus lingered about outside andvisited. The musical exercises of the occasion werenot as extended as one would fancy from the expres-sion an all day sing. The program was — Sunday-school ni
. Highways and byways of the South. nall day sing at the church. This all day sing drewtogether the people for ten or twelve miles came on foot, on saddle-horses, and in all sortsof vehicles, and they brought feed for their horses andlunches for themselves, and each one who owned acopy of The Old Christian Harmony brought thatto sing from. Not half the people could get into thechurch, and the surplus lingered about outside andvisited. The musical exercises of the occasion werenot as extended as one would fancy from the expres-sion an all day sing. The program was — Sunday-school nine to ten in the morning, preaching elevento twelve-thirty, and singing from two to four in theevening. This word evening is used in Georgiain the same sense that we in the North use after-noon, and as soon as supper has been eaten they con-sider it no longer evening, but night. Every church in the region had its annual all daysing, which was perhaps the greatest pleasure of theyear. There were, however, various lesser pleasures,. A Country Store 1 i • j^ _. TlLU^.-i . w- .-M L- A tU ,JS. Among the Georgia Crackers loi especially in winter. Then they had parties with anaccompaniment of dancing, if girls enough were pres-ent who did not belong to the church. But most ofthe young women joined the church by the time theywere fifteen or sixteen, and after that would not indulgein so doubtful an amusement. Yet they had no hesitation in taking part in thegames of Stealing Partners, Twistification, andFancy Four—games which do not differ muchfrom dancing, except in name. The way we play em is this, said a youngfellow who enlightened me on the subject; theresmusic to all of em, and while the fiddles a-goin weskip aroun and try to knock with the music. InStealing Partners, we all have partners but one boy,and he pick out any girl he want and swings. Thatleave another boy without a partner, and he have topick out a girl and swing her, and so on. For Twistification we all gets in li
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