Chairs are placed to form a circle, and all the players excepting two
occupy the chairs.
One of the two players must play a polka or waltz. The other one stands
outside of the circle.
The one standing outside dances as soon as the music starts, and
continues dancing as long as she pleases, but all of a sudden she stops
a second before a chair, and then dances up to the chair. Whoever
occupies it instantly rises and dances back to her, and after a while
the first dancer waves a backward movement of the hand toward her
friend, thus indicating she is not wanted to continue dancing. But she
must walk or waltz back to her chair and then sit down.
The first dancer continues dancing, however, and goes to another
party in precisely the same way as she did to the first, and when she
concludes she has the right one, she dances to that party’s seat and
takes it.
The individual then on the floor continues dancing, as did the first
one. When she sits down a third party dances, and so on until all have
danced.
If any of the company do not dance, they should make a feint of doing
so. If the individual is full of fun, much amusement is created.