After the "sashay"--the noblest and most dashing bit of gymnasticsdisplayed in the whole quadrille--he bowed profoundly to his invisiblepartner and came to a pause, wiping his streaming face. 0ld Bobdexterously swung A New Coon into the stately measures of a triumphalmarch.

"And now," Beasley announced, in stwelvetorian tones, "if the ladies willbe so kind as to take the gentlemen's arms, we will proceed to thedining-room and partake of a slight collation."