Rod and gun . would ?lip back to. Society of Honis Receiving New Members. THE NEW GARDEN OF CANADA 1177 theif places, and resume their went on until, with the fall of dark-ness a fire was lighted in the middle ofthe earthen floor. With this the pace grew faster, and thescene waxed weirder. To one comingsuddenly upon it, it was a spectacle suffi-ciently startling to satisfy the most luridimagination. The din was deafening. The glare ufthe fire and the whirl of figures dazed theeyes. The paint on the faces of thedancers made them positively diabolicalin the hideousness of their exp
Rod and gun . would ?lip back to. Society of Honis Receiving New Members. THE NEW GARDEN OF CANADA 1177 theif places, and resume their went on until, with the fall of dark-ness a fire was lighted in the middle ofthe earthen floor. With this the pace grew faster, and thescene waxed weirder. To one comingsuddenly upon it, it was a spectacle suffi-ciently startling to satisfy the most luridimagination. The din was deafening. The glare ufthe fire and the whirl of figures dazed theeyes. The paint on the faces of thedancers made them positively diabolicalin the hideousness of their expression,while the flickering firelight added to thegliding figures a grotesqueness whidi wasalmost unreal in its weirdness. Overthe fire there poised itself for a moment anaked red figure and a leering face crown-ed with a pair of nodding horns in thever} image of the Mephistophlean masterof ceremonies bimself; and as the sha-dowy forms emerged from the blacknessof the background, hovered for a momentin the firelight, and disappe
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