By this time, the boys were getting worried. Their little joke had gone a bit too far. They would have liked to tell their father about it, but after all the publicity, they were afraid their father would be angry. One day, Father Gibby called his boys together and announced that because of the great warning heaven sent to them by means of the mysterious apple, he considered it absolutely necessary to glean the fields carefully and thoroughly, starting immediately, for grain to be stored away and used when the days of famine were upon them. Poor George and Al! The tables had really turned on them. They went into a huddle and finally decided they would rather brave their father's anger than glean the fields. And so the story came out. Father Gibby was angry for a while, but as time went by, he learned to laugh about it as much as everyone else.119 Youth Dances Some of the stake leaders were concerned about the youth getting too much of a good thing. In the quarterly stake conferences of 1899, several talks included admonitions about the dangers of "round dancing." Parents were encouraged to attend the dances with their young people. In stake conference on 11 December 1899, Elder Anthon Lund gave a sermon on round dancing. 120Although the message he gave was not recorded, the idea behind it becomes clear as Bessie Porter Brough, ayoung girl of eighteen at the time, describes the reaction of the youth. There was a time in the early days in Utah, I think in the 1890s, when the church put the stamp of disapproval on all "round dancing" such as the waltz, schottische and polka. The young people didn't like it. They wanted to waltz and learn new dances. Quadrilles and reels had had their day. They were outdated, old-fashioned. The preachers talked square dancing from the stand. Parents talked it at home, but still the discontent grew. Finally, the church relented just a little and decided to permit two or three round dances each evening. The young people were delighted for a little while, then they began to clamor for more. I remember being present at a dance one night when we saw the boys gather in a group with their arms around each other and their heads together. When the next set of numbers was called, the boys went in the usual way, selected their partners, then turning and facing the dance floor, they stood still. A few hurried words of explanation to their partners and there they stood, eight couples just lined up along the edge of the dance floor. The floor manager asked them all to take their places on the floor. Still, not a move. He warned the boys they were losing their turn todance, then he motioned the musicians to start the music. They played the music through about the usual number of times, then stopped. Then the exasperated floor manager said, 'All right, you can have your remaining number of round dances and then you can go home,' and that is exactly what they did. I do not remember what followed immediately after this incident, but it was not long until the ban on round dances was lifted. But on yielding to 77