Right back up on the hill is the schoolhouse where they do their dancing, and they've got a table or two and a swing for the kids to fall outa--and they call it Bluebell Grove because yuh never saw a bluebell within ten mile uh the place.
That's where the general round-up for the Fourth is pulled off this year--so Jim Bleeker was telling me this morning.

We sure got to be present, Dilly." "I'm afraid I'm not the sort of man to shine in society, William," dissented the other modestly.

"You can go, and--" "Don't yuh never _dance_ ?" Billy eyed him speculatively.

A man under fifty--and Dill might be anywhere between thirty and forty--who had two sound legs and yet did not dance! "Oh, I used to, after a fashion.

But my feet are so far off that I find communication with them necessarily slow, and they have a habit of embarking in wild ventures of their own.