— PARTY. — We have another party to chronicle for Christmas week.  A very pleasant gathering assembled at Mr. B. B. Lee's house, some three miles from town, Thursday, Dec. 26, at which nearly all Hempstead was present, as the house was filled so full that all those present could hardly get in the house much less dance.  The festivities were kept up until nearly daylight, giving us another proof that the old song —

"We'll dance all night -
Till broad daylight.
And go home with the girls in the morning" -

has not been forgotten; at least it looked so to us.

"Party at B. B. Lee's", The Texas Countryman (Hempstead, TX), Saturday, January 4, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1, p. 3, col. 2.

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