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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 6

A revival of old-fashioned country dances is promised this winter 111 England. One of the primo favourites early in last century was danced to the tun'o of "Go to the Devil and Shako Yourself—a title referred to with horror in Crabbe's "Talcs." Other odd titles are quoted in an essay by Charles Knight lamenting that "the country dance is obsolete." "To outlive one's old friends," bo wrote, "is tho most painful fooling in garth's pilgrimage—and I have <lono this long before I have grown grey. 'Tho Jolly Young Waterman' and 'Money Musk' and 'The Devil Among tho Tailors' and 'Drops of Brandy' and 'I'olly, ,I'nt the Kettle On' are with the things before the flood—and I will weep for them, Departed visions of tho dear country dances of, my boyhood, to what foreign lands are ye fled ? Are yo departed to unnationnliso oflil/r feet, lis the dctestnblo quadrilles have corrupted ours?" Lady Dorothy Nevill, who took part in some country dances in 1805 at Strathtieldsnye, wrote: "It would bnvn mado you laugh to see the Duke of Wellington, Dizzy, Lord ytanhopo, etc., dancinp a dance which consists in running in « ring, jumping, and singing, 'What have you, got for supper, Mr». Bond? Ducks in tho garden, geese in the pond.'"