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Quiet And Snug

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QUIET AND SNUG (S8x32) 2C (4C set) David Rutherford RSCDS Book 20

1- 8 1s set twice to 2L and 1s turn 2H twice
9-16 1s set twice to 2M and 1s turn 2H twice
17-24 1s lead down the middle for 3 steps, back to top and cast to 2nd place
25-32 2s+1s dance R&L

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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Quiet and Snug is a Scottish Country Dance published by Rutherford in c. 1756 and interpreted in RSCDS Book 20 in 1959.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)

Quiet And Snug
Quiet And Snug, 1912
Grace was working at her needle. Marion read aloud from a book before her. The Doctor, in his dressing-gown and slippers, leaned back in his easy chair, and listened to the book, and looked upon his daughters.

Image copyright Charles Green, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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