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====== Perro ======

John Walsh, 1731  Andrew Shaw 2017\\
Long set, 3 cpls., prog. 3 1 2
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A2 1-4 2nd cpl. move up the outside (not too far) into 1st place, as 1st cpl. lead down, 
       separate, and go out through the sides, Ist man going L-shoulder down 
       round 3rd man, 1st woman L-shoulder up round 2nd woman and coming in through 
       the ends of the set, to meet in the centre, then 
A2 1-4 1st cpl. pass L., going out through the other end of the set, 1st man going 
       R-shoulder, quite wide, round 2nd woman, 1st woman R-shoulder, quite wide, 
       round 3rd man, to finish in middle place improper, as 2nd and 3rd men, 2nd and 
       3rd woman, change places L-shoulder along the line and turn out of the set to 
       face back in, joining hands in lines of 3. 
            [This should have the appearance of half heys for 3 along the lines.]
B1 1-4 Lines of 3 set forward and fall back. 
   5-8 1st cpl. cast R. (man down, wo. up), round one, to finish between the ends, 
       in the middle of facing lines of 3 across, as these ends (3rd man and 2nd man, 
       3rd woman and 2nd woman) meet and turn S. out of the set, onto the ends of 
       those lines.
B2 1-4 Lines of 3 forward and fall back
   5-8 Prts 2-hand turn 3rd and 2nd cpls once around 1st cpl once and a quarter 
       round into middle place proper Order: 3 1 2</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhqAgxEYMlo      

Note on the dance\\ 
The Perro in John Johnson's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country has different figure set to the same tune
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