HELDER'S POINT
orig source: Cahusac's Country Dances for the year 1800
My source: Pat Shaw's "Holland as Seen in the English Country Dance"
Meter: cut-time G  NIB  AABB, four bars each, 16 altogether.
Longways duple.  Brutally easy, like Yankee Doodle.
Entered 04/08/2004

Original text:
"Hands across and back again ._  Lead down the middle and back again .-.
Hands four round at the top ..-."


A1: 1-4: Right hand star
A2: 5-8: Left hands back

B1: 1-4: 1s lead a short way down the middle and back into second place,
         2s moving up.

B2: 1-4: Circle four once round to the left (or two to the left and two to
         the right.)  

(The Duke of York - yes, that one, captured the Dutch Fleet off the island of
Texel in 1799; Admiral Mitchell was in charge of the operation.  Den Helder is
the port on the island; it's still a port, where North Sea fishermen auction 
their catches.)