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called, were invited to a dinner cooked by Samuel Dow. This was such
a success that it became an annual affair for twelve years. The
"Bachelor's Annual Social Party" was held at the Dix House (home of
the Misses Eliza and Ruth Dix), and John Anderson wrote a
description of this affair which read: "One end of the room was
decorated with fry pans, cast nets, rifles, grub hoes and axes. On the
opposite side were moss, with oranges, lanterns, and a display of
comic mottoes and verses. The colony girls rather objected to the one
which read, "After man came woman, and she has been after him
ever since." Twenty-four square dances were called that evening (with
round ones in between), and the refreshments were "roast duck, pau
pau pie, huckleberries, smoked venison and hulled corn."

Joseph Price could play the flute, and John Anderson the violin, and
they were both very popular at all the New Britain colony social
affairs. As the story is told, “Once, when Trapper's Lodge became
infested with fleas, Anderson and Price invited all the young people of
the colony to a dance there. During the evening Price and Anderson
sat on the little porch they had built onto the shack and played music
for the dancers inside. Anderson said that when the guests left late
that evening, all the fleas left with them.”

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