ZESTY CHRISTMAS HORNPIPE
Tony Saletan / Ted Sanella
Duple IMPROPER contra

A1: 1s balance woman 2 and circle 3 to the left TWICE around
A2: 1s balance gent 2 and circle 3 to the left twice, 
    opening to a line facing down with the woman in the middle; 
    woman 2 joins the line (now of four).

B1: Down 4-in-line (1s in the center), all turn alone, 
    return and hand cast off.

B2: Long lines forward and back; 1s swing in the center and end facing the 
     next woman (originally #4).

Tony's notes:

Mark (and anyone else interested), in the Boston area (where I danced for 
several decades before recently moving to the state of Washington), we
begin  Vinton's (alias Christmas) Hornpipe pretty much as follows: On the
first  four beats all three people involved (woman #1 and the two gents in
the  subset) all balance advancing into a hand-holding circle of three. If
the  set is compact enough side-to-side, forming of the circle is almost 
instantaneous, and dancers can enjoy the connection of "balance the ring" 
almost from the very first beat.

Incidentally, when the buzz-step swing started to gain such joyful 
popularity that it overshadowed many other figures, Ted Sannella and I 
created a revised version, in which the odd-numbered couples start improper, 
have a partner swing, and the circles are zesty:

Alan sez: Called it at GNC December 2006 contra and it went over a treat.