American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred
dances ... By Elias Howe ..  1862

MERRY MIDSUMMER.
16-bar hornpipe, 32-bar jigs.
Sicilian circle or improper longways.
(Music: Liverpool Hornpipe.)

Form as for Spanish Dance. All balance, turn the opposite--join hands with
partners and chassa by couples to the right and left (every other couple to the
right), half right and left, there chassa by couples back to places, half right
and left--all forward and back, all forward again and pass to next couple (as
in the Haymakers).


A1: 1-4: balance
    5-8: opposites turn two hands

A2: 1-4: taking hands with partner, gallop thus:
         pass one couple (men go back to back)
         pass another (women go back to back)
         and open facing third couple
    5-8: with third couple, half right and left (facing back the way you came)

B1: As in A2, but going back the other way.

B2: Forward and back, forward and pass through.