The Bulls And the Jonathans : Comprising John Bull And Brother Jonathan, And John Bull in America
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Sometimes, particularly during storms of thunder and lightning at night, the windows of the house in which the dance took place look as if the whole was on fire, and some have said they saw the little dark gentleman dancing there surrounded by old women on broomsticks. This is doubtful; but certain it is that the old one-eyed 280 JOHN BULL IN AMEEICA. rooster was killed the following Christmas night in a battle royal between the Harsimusites and the Hobo- kenites, in which the former were worst...ed." " I suppose," said I, " this cured them of dancing on Sunday mornings." " Not in the least," replied he. " These very people you see upon crutches, are eternally jigging it and frisking their tails. You shall see." So he began whistling Yankee Doodle, and, in the space of five minutes, at least thirty people, without a single leg among them, gathered round us, dancing most incontinently. I turned in disgust from this in- corrigible race of impious republicans, whom the loss of legs cannot restrain from a breach of the Sabbath, and who persevere in their enormities even in despite of miracles, as the Quarterly says.
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