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] was mpils the . ball To the of to first -niht the parents to the next and the old elder people brothers were invited and sisters ; this . ;
" And oi think / ' said g our landlady , , "f children ' s manners is all climbed the "We better paid up for the out it b , threepences enches and t' scho till , olmaster we we were delivered he on thinks the our top blue so too row tickets . " of seats , and , and we
twelve or from . Ranged whit thence years e ribbons against we old , surveye all the others in wall white d the with "was ball scene artificial a frocks . row , of some flowers little trimmed girls some from with even colored five had to
wreaths of flowers , on their heads . Certainly whatever , novelties we creatures might bring ' frocks down " , stood crinoline out" was inmost not one orthodox of them fashion , for these . Behind little
them tinsel , flowers on the wall and , . most scarfs symmetricall and some sort y arrange of velvet d , hung caps , wreaths the use of of
which we discovered , afterwards , . The audience , among which were numbers of fat children falling into all sorts of pretty sleepy attitudes
in their mothers' arms , consisted chiefly of old people : the women , with a look of anxious pride watching the whole affair most intently ;
the men , with broad grins on their faces settled into a state of wondering " Well deli thi ght s . is a spree" said an old farmer behind me , which
re-, , mark On exactl the ri y ht expressed was a my in own the fe barn elings wall . which led to some inner
p sand lace ; heads out of g which sunburnt streamed gap facesand a red fustian light , showing jackets , of a cluster some boys of roug who lx
were y crowded , in there ; the b , enches where we and the elder folks were , being the place of honor . At the leffc clustered was a white the sheet , cutting dressed off a
corner of the roombehind which were boys being for the next dance , . Two youths only were capering about in front of us : white trousers and black or grey jackets , with dazzlingly their hair
forehead close white cropped shirt they collars , excep looked , composed t one preternafcurall lock their which costume y was solemn brushed ; as they yellow up shuffled from their was and
stamped alternatel ; y , and their eyes were fixed with intense attention on MrBrocklebank himselfwhoplaying on one fiddle and
accomli panied hted . b b y a candles second , in was a seated wooden , in , the chandelier midst of and us . tin The sconces whole fixed was y
by against g the smell the wall of burnt . My cork expectations and a g were limpse raised of sailors to an ' intense hats behind pitch _, the sheet ; and sure enough I was right . Out came twelve little British sticks
sailors with corked whiskers and beards , and the proper in their hands to execute a refined and operatic dance , founded on the British hornpipe . I may , indeed time , say honored that all and the dances , thoug insti h
slihtlvariedwere based on that -graceful - tution g . y Twenty , -four eyes were fixed solemnly on Mr . Brocklebank , and twelve faces were set in rigid determination to stamp or scrape
or shuffle a hole in twelve different spots of the floor . They pulled
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ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS . 41
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/41/
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