Dancing Without an Instructor

by Professor Wilkinson

28.—SCISSORS TO GRIND.

Leader and partner waltz once around. Leading lady, who has been provided with a tin horn, hands this horn to one of the gentlemen. He begins to walk around the circle blowing his horn and calling out “Scissors to grind,” until some lady has scissors to grind. Then, taking from him the tin horn, hands it to another gentleman, who in turn imitates a “Scissors to grind” character. Gentleman waltzes once around with the lady who has rescued him from his honored position of “Scissors to grind.”