dance step.
When they have had enough – whether the music has stopped or not – they stop – she takes the handkerchief he had in his hand & they return to their seats. Shortly afterwards, she gets up, takes him by the hand & dances a shirt – pair of socks or anything else – to him.
Sometimes the Indians go wild over these dances & will dance away anything – rifles, ammunition, dogs, harness, sleighs, even, by the end of the dance, a whole Winter's catch of fur.
Every effort has been made by the Authorities to bring these “Give Away” Dances to an end. I danced with one old man who had his eye on my old Army Tunic which I was wearing out. Needless to say – he didn't get it.
