title: The Gandy Dancer and Other Short Stories
author: B. D. Sparhawk
description: B.D. Sparhawk is an unusual woman who has been: the only outdoor scaffold-climbing billboard painter in the USA; radio and T.V. producer; news-writer for CBS, ABC &amp; Fox T.V. writer on THE NEW YORK POST; US Congressional Press Secretary. She's had her own sign painting, mural and portrait business; wax chaser in a bronze foundry; sculptor, and more. And says she would still choose scary-thrilling entrepreneurial razzmatazz above all else. SPARHAWK lives in Big Sur with her cat Gorgeous. She has been driven her whole life by curiosity and the chance to witness. She is currently working on her second novel, Whirlpool, and her first novel soon to be published, Noise. And four new children's books. SPARHAWK was commissioned for original oil portraits William F. Buckley, Jr. James Fox (former head of the NY FBI) and other luminaries. Her work has appeared in major motion pictures, and is in wide-ranging private collections. She designed and sculpted models for a heroic-sized bronze memorial to the slain police officers of NYC (The Angel &amp; The Officer); her spirit of adventure most recently took her cross country as a photographer's assistant on T.V's SURVIVOR-AFRICA, 2001 after which she moved to Yosemite for a year to write.
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  # The Dancing Floor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Buchan
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PART I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  PART II
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  PART III
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
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  This eBook was produced by: Don Lainson dlainson@sympatico.ca
  
  
  “Quisque suos patimur Manes”
  
  
  VIRGIL, Æneid, vi. 743
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO
  
  
  HENRY NEWBOLT
  
  
  
  
  
  An episode in this tale is taken from a short story of mine entitled
  
  
  “Basilissa,” published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1914.
  
  
  J. B.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DANCING FLOOR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PART I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  This story was told me by Leithen, as we were returning rather late
  
  
  in the season from a shooting holiday in North Ontario. Ther