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Whiskers

Walsh in 1713.
Adapted by Andrew Shaw in 2002.
Proper triple minor longways dance.
Tune: Whiskers

Al 1-4 Is cross passing by right shoulder and go below into 2nd place, 
       2s leading up in the last 2 bars.
A2 1-4 Is cross passing by left shoulder and go below into 3rd place, 
       3s leading up in the last two bars and facing up.
B  1-2 1s lead back up into 2nd place, 3s casting down into 3rd place.
   3-9 Full double figure eight, thus: In the 3rd and 4th bar, 1s cross up 
       into 1st place and 2s cast down into 2nd place (dance walking step); 
       then, in the 5th through 9th bars, 1s cast down, cross up, and cast down, 
       while 2s cross up, cast down, and cross up (skip-change step).
   10-14 1s and 3s, four changes of rights and lefts, starting with partner.

Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7ASqXP0Z4&t=13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdXd5t59Tbo

The royal courts of Elizabeth I and James I bristled with beards; they diminished somewhat in the following reigns, dwindling to tufts and pencil moustachios. In 1680, however, Louis XIV of France shaved:

There have been few men more vain than Louis XIV, perhaps as a compensation for his total lack of any single quality worthy of admiration. He desired always to appear young, and the mode in his time was a slavish imitation of this foolish fantasy of perpetual youth. Hence when (at the age of forty-two) the king found some white hairs in his shred of moustache, the offensive truth was erased.

His nation took the hint and shaved as well, and the English, ever emulous of the French, followed suit: the beard largely vanished in England until the reign of Victoria. Aesthetics, however, could not gainsay nature, and men were compelled to draw upon the good offices of a professional barber (self-shaving was not common until the later 18th century for want of good equipment). Only the wealthy could afford the time and expense of the paid shave more often than every several days; hence, most men must have sported the shadow of incipient whiskers (which in that day more often signified the moustache than the chin beard) much of the time.

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