The Amazed Geneticist, or
Ramsay's Reeling

2/2 (100), (AABC)4, 
D major four-couple longways,
threes and fours improper

Pat Shaw, 1974.
Pat Shaw -Marjorie Fennessy, editor), Pat Shaw's Pinewoods, 1983.
Bert Eccles, Not Quite Shaw, 1991.

A1 1-8 Ends cross in to the middle and
      middles cast out to the ends for double figure-eights.

A2 1-8 With your shadow, ends meet shadow and cross out on the side of the set
while middles cast out around, meet shadow, and cross out on the side of the
set for an elongated double figure-eights along the sides of the set.


B 1-2 Ends lead in to the middle while middles wait at the ends of the set.
  3-4 In the center, women quick cross by the left, and men quick cross by the
      right.
  5-8 Hands-four (ones with threes and twos with fours) circle left once around.

C 1-4 New ends gate middles through the ends and around into a ring of eight.
  5-8 Hands-eight circle left halfway.
      End in the order 3, 1, 4, 2.
      Note that the ends and middles have switched roles in the B part.

In your lines, ends are shadows and middles are shadows.

John Ramsay, director of Recreation Extension at Berea College, earned his
doctorate in animal genetics. This dance was first performed in his honor 
at the Levi Jackson weekend in September 1974.