I've performed the "tickle-toe"
With its forty steps or so,
I have learnt a native dance in Costa Rica;
I've fox-trotted in Stranraer,
Irish-jigged in Mullingar,
And I've danced the Dance of Death at Tanganyika.

I have "bostoned" with the best
At a ball in Bukharest,
I've reversed with Congo pigmies, dark and hairy;
I have one-stepped in Sing-Sing
And performed the Highland Fling,
I have razzled in the reel at Inveraray.

I have tangoed in Koran,
Danced quadrilles in Ispahan
(Though I haven't done the polka in Shiraz yet);
But I've followed in the train
Of Terpsichore in vain,
For I haven't mastered _one_ step of the Jazz yet.

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"THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S EASY CHAIR.

"In this column, to decide questions concerning the current use
of words, ----'s Dictionary is consulted as arbiter.

"'N.H.R.,' Starkville, Miss.--'What is the meaning of the word
_Eothen_, and what is its derivation?'