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George C. Burmeister diary, 1863
1863-12-24
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about without any partners, at one time even colonel Geddes and Captain Wells commenced dancing together. I made myself generally useful and amused myself with a few ladies playing muggins, but I soon discovered that they cared very little about the play. They were very little about the play. They were very uncommunicative and finally the play died and I made up a game of my own with some gentlemen. I tried my best to converse with some of the ladies present but I was entirely unsuccessful, there were but a few of them that could make any pretensions to intelligence. Some would laugh, very ridiculously at the merest trifle, while others sat quietly and would not say a single word to any body. I think that in my rural district of Iowa, I could have produced a better set of ladies at a party without excepting a single one, but taking them as I found them. The supper was pretty good and I had the honor to conduct one of the ladies to it, but what foolish talk she did jabber. I was perfectly amased. The party was Kept up till nearly daylight, when I went home, satisfied that the ladies here are not much.
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about without any partners, at one time even colonel Geddes and Captain Wells commenced dancing together. I made myself generally useful and amused myself with a few ladies playing muggins, but I soon discovered that they cared very little about the play. They were very little about the play. They were very uncommunicative and finally the play died and I made up a game of my own with some gentlemen. I tried my best to converse with some of the ladies present but I was entirely unsuccessful, there were but a few of them that could make any pretensions to intelligence. Some would laugh, very ridiculously at the merest trifle, while others sat quietly and would not say a single word to any body. I think that in my rural district of Iowa, I could have produced a better set of ladies at a party without excepting a single one, but taking them as I found them. The supper was pretty good and I had the honor to conduct one of the ladies to it, but what foolish talk she did jabber. I was perfectly amased. The party was Kept up till nearly daylight, when I went home, satisfied that the ladies here are not much.
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