Miss Clementine Loughan

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 8 First, second and third lady join nearer hands and with sixteen slip steps dance round their partners in an anticlockwise direction.
9-16 First, second and third men join nearer hands and with sixteen slip steps dance round their partners in a clockwise direction.
17-24 Quern for three couples*: All three couples turn partner with the right hand once round (three steps) then dance six hands across in a wheel half way with the right hand (three steps) and cross back to own side giving right hand in crossing (two steps).
25-28 All three couples cross over with the right hand; third and second couples change places with the left hand on the side lines.
29-32 All three couples cross over with the right hand; third and first couples change places with the left hand on the side lines.

Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Miss Clementine Loughan

* A list of all new figures introduced in Whetherly books & sheets, together with a reference to the book where the figure first appeared and is best described, can be found in a separate file called "Whetherly Collection of New Figures" also available for download.

Editor's note to the 2020 edition The original description would have led to a shift of the entire set down the hall. A revision retaining the flow of the original movement has been made to the above description. The original description is as follows:
25-32 Second and first couples dance rights and lefts. Meanwhile third couple casts off into second place, crosses over giving right hand, casts off into third place and crosses back to own side giving left hand.

(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)

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