TRANSCRIPT

The Country Dance
A short story from 'Pioneer Tales and Other Human Stories'
By H.B. Adshead

Part 5

One dance in particular has left a lasting impression on me. One afternoon in the fall of 1900, the boys came in and announced there was going to be a dance at Mr. ---- over the river, and could they have the team to go? 'Why , of course,' I answered, 'and why can't I go too?' So mother baked a cake and on the evening of the eventful night the horses were hitched up, hay and blankets put in the box, and off we started after chores were done, for a seven or eight mile drive to a farmhouse situated in the tall timbers.