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THE BUMPKIN.
This favourite Scotch Dance is performed by six
Ladies and three Gentlemen, arranged as the annexed
figure, with their backs near the extremity of the room.
The centre Gentleman (King), wearing a hat, is repre»
t-ented by the figure 5, and the other two by 3 and 7,
4
3
8
9
5
1
2
7
6
while the sis outside figures represent the Ladies ; and
it may be remarked, that by adding these figures up or
down, across or by the corners, the result will always
amount to Fifteen.
It is necessary to premise, that the figure of the Buwpkin consists of three separate parts, viz,,
THE (dancing) promenade, THE SETTIKG,AND THE REELING;
that th? Bumpkin tunes consist also of three Parts, and that each of these must be played twice over. When the " Old Coun-
try Bumkpin" tune (p. 30) begins, the whole nine promenade to the further end of the room, the Gentlemen holding each of their
partners by the hand ; — they then all turn round by the right, join hands again, and return promenading to their starting place
during the first pwt of the tune. While the second pait is "played, 5 sets to and turns 8 & 2, 3 do. 4 & 9, — 7 do. 6 & 1;
and, so soon as the third part begins, 3, 5, 7, reel with those they had set to, and continue reeling until that part is finished, when
the whole arrive at their original places. The tune is now begun a second time, and they start again, turn and return as before,
while the first part is played. When the second part begins, 5 sets to and turns 4 & 6, — 3 do. 1 & 8,-7 do. 9 & 2 ; and^
during the third part, 3, 6, 7, reel with the Ladies they had set to, and then return to their places as before. The tune is
now begun for the third time, and the whole start again, turn and return as formerly, during the first part .Sg. When the
second part begins, 5 sets to 9 & 1,-3 do. to 8 & 4, — 7 do. to 6 & 2 ; and the gentlemen (3 5 7) now reel'with their ow/i.
partners during the third part of the tune, and return to their original places as before. The same tune being begun a fourth
time, 5 sets to 3 & 7, — 9 do. to 2 & 4, — I do. 6 & 8; and after reeling during the third part, 4, 3, 8, exchange places with
9, 5, 1 ; and 3 (now King) taking the Hat, the Bumpkin is now danced over again in the very same manner to the tune of
" Ailsey Marley" (p. 30). Upon 4, 3, S, then exchanging places with 2, 7, 6, and 7 (now King) taking the Hat, the Dance is re-
peated to the tune of the " New Bumpkin," (p. 30), and carried on as formerly to where the second part of the Old Bumpkin tune
has been begun for the third time, viz., at this mark, -JS' 5 now sets to 9, — 3 do. to 4, — 7 do. to 2 ; and at that moment there
additional Gentlemen join the Dance by setting to the unoccupied Ladies, 8, 1, 6, the music omitting the third part of the
tune, and changing to the common time reel of Tullochgorum, which is played three times over; and thus concludes the
BuJiFKlN, as danced a!i over Scotkuid prior to the year 1816.