In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere

IN BEAVER COVE
AND ELSEWHERE
MATT CRIM
New York CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO. 1892
Copyright, 1892, CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO. ( All rights reserved. )
PRESS OF JENKINS & McCOWAN, NEW YORK.
TO Father and Mother.
CONTENTS.
IN BEAVER COVE and ELSEWHERE.
IN BEAVER COVE.
They were having a dance over in Beaver Cove, at the Woods'. All the young people of the settlement were there, and many from adjoining settlements. The main room of the cabin had been almost cleared of its meager furniture, and the pine-plank floor creaked under the tread of shuffling feet, while dust and lamp-smoke made the atmosphere thick and close.
But little did the dancers care for that. Bill Eldridge sat by the hearth, playing his fiddle with tireless energy, while a boy added the thumping of two straws to the much-tried fiddle-strings. A party of shy girls huddled in a corner of the room, and the bashful boys hung about the door, and talked loudly.