Word: jig
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life? Let him be pictured coming into his home, chinking the coin in his pockets, and as he enters he strikes up the "Beautiful Blue Danube," and all the children fall into a spontaneous jig that is perfectly infectious in its jollity. May there not really be such a thread of romance running through the seemingly monotonous life-tramp of the Organ-Grinder...