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I pick up my pen and easel to report that another year has come and gone and so has another ball at the Old Courthouse.
It all went so fast and so I am left here to report the goings on of another by-gone ball:
We laughed, we cried, we sang, danced, ate, drank, sore eyed and went home. I danced a few sets with my wife and found Miss Anna and Miss Silvanna once again to be very able dance partners. I met a few lovely young women and danced with them too. but as the evening went on the partners were few. With snow on the ground and more still falling.
We found the end to be very galling.
The apple cider was good. Dred Scott was there too. We didn't break up till the cows went moo. The band played flourishes as we waited to begin the dances we saved. Mrs. Deborah the very able dance caller got all through the evening unscathed.
That evening at home we did have a soiree
Miss Silvana, Vivian, Anna, Doug, Jeremy and my wife come they may.
we sat around all evening and spoke of western stars
the ladies they knitted while the men spoke of Mars.
The guests when they left to their homes to repair
In a blizzard of snow the roads in despair
Next morning we woke to 12 inches of snow
after church to the Oakland house we all did go
We hungraly waited while the maid she did work
we stared at a piano the musicians did shirk
Then off to dinner the guests then did go
and spoke of Dredd Scott, Slavery, Dent, Benoist, and Glasgow
John Brown he was mentioned and the wine it did flow.
While roast beef, cornish game hens, and beets passed to and fro
The last course, desert, it came much too soon
Then to the parlor, with port watched the moon.
The ladies in silk dresses their pretty young pallor
So it was when the guests bid adeiu in the parlor.
Frank Aufmuth
It all went so fast and so I am left here to report the goings on of another by-gone ball:
We laughed, we cried, we sang, danced, ate, drank, sore eyed and went home. I danced a few sets with my wife and found Miss Anna and Miss Silvanna once again to be very able dance partners. I met a few lovely young women and danced with them too. but as the evening went on the partners were few. With snow on the ground and more still falling.
We found the end to be very galling.
The apple cider was good. Dred Scott was there too. We didn't break up till the cows went moo. The band played flourishes as we waited to begin the dances we saved. Mrs. Deborah the very able dance caller got all through the evening unscathed.
That evening at home we did have a soiree
Miss Silvana, Vivian, Anna, Doug, Jeremy and my wife come they may.
we sat around all evening and spoke of western stars
the ladies they knitted while the men spoke of Mars.
The guests when they left to their homes to repair
In a blizzard of snow the roads in despair
Next morning we woke to 12 inches of snow
after church to the Oakland house we all did go
We hungraly waited while the maid she did work
we stared at a piano the musicians did shirk
Then off to dinner the guests then did go
and spoke of Dredd Scott, Slavery, Dent, Benoist, and Glasgow
John Brown he was mentioned and the wine it did flow.
While roast beef, cornish game hens, and beets passed to and fro
The last course, desert, it came much too soon
Then to the parlor, with port watched the moon.
The ladies in silk dresses their pretty young pallor
So it was when the guests bid adeiu in the parlor.
Frank Aufmuth
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