Playford's Progeny

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====== Gleaners ======
  
Dance by Ron Coxall \\
Tune: Field of Dreams by Heather Bexon\\
3 couple longways, AB x 3\\
Tune: Well Done Jack
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A 1-2 1M and 3W cast round one dancer to middle place, (2M moving
      up and 2W moving down);
  3-4 1M and 3W gypsy right halfway.
  5-8 Lines of three fall back and come forward:
  9-16 Circle left once around plus one more place (ending with 1M
       improper at the foot of the set).
B 1-4 All set to opposite and cross over:
  5-8 Women face to the right and draw that man, holding both
      hands, two places clockwise (ending 1s, 2s improper, 3s);
  9-12 2s half-figure eight down while 1s lead down to below the 3s;
  13-16 All lead up one place and honor partner.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laU4AuB0NEA\\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8I_VfnSrE\\
Ron writes that this dance was first tried out at a dance party in a house called
Cornfields--hence the name. “Heather wrote this lovely, dreamy tune for the dance
and I liked the idea of gleaners gathering up discarded and unwanted dreams."

A gleaner is a person who gathers small amounts of something, either slowly and carefully, or in a laborious way.