A Contra Dance with the President

I talked with Brigham till a party of young girls, whom he treated with a sage mixture of gallantry and fatherliness, came to him with an invitiation to join in some old-fashioned contra-dance long forgotten in the East. I was curious to see how he would acquit himself in this supreme ordeal of dignity; so I descended to the parquet, and was much impressed by the aristocratic grace with which he went through his figures.