Memories of Calling a Country Dance Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, 15th February 1827
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There you stood the envied leader of thirty couple; on your partner's
decision rested the momentous question of What figure? and how proudly you
communicated to the few around you the important intelligence, Hands
across, back again, down the middle, up again, and pousette. Then the
endeavour to appear degage, while the two fiddles scraped over the tune,
and your bosom throbbed with anxiety! But as you became inspired, your
heart beat fuller, your capers were higher, and you redoubled the kind
looks you bestowed upon your blushing partner, who gave you a hand as warm
as her heart! 


*Then*, when came the final scrape, what pursuit of a chair! and then a
glass of warm negus was almost as much a desideratum as the longitude is
now.

*Then* fanning was no sinecure; the ample green orb was spread --
 'Like the moon / Through optic glass by Tuscan artist view'd';

and the assiduous beau, while industriously wafting the cool breezes on his
sweetheart's brow, often concealed beneath its disk the near approaches he
made toward her cheek.

... Oh, happy days! But ye are gone! - and sickly and
heartless Quadrille rules it now in the throne of country dance, while
crowds of parasites, as heartless as herself, follow her over chalked
floors and perfumed halls.