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DANCING IN THE OLDEN TIME.

A VANISHING SCOTTISH PREJUDICE:

It is seldom that a generation of men witness the disappearance of a prejudice tlist was deeply rooted during their carlier years. But to suol an experience many Sects on the sunny side of forty can reasonably lay claim. Little more than thirty years ago a fondness for dancing waston often supposed to betoken frivolous, if not

STOUT. vicious, boudencies. Nowadays it is generally

The

recognised that a partiality for this particula form of amuseo is not incompatible with a due appreciation of the weightier concerns of life. Like many other Scottish prejudices, the miscon ception that long prevailed had its origin at the Reformation. To Queen Mary's devotion to danning the writings of Kaox make frequout allusion, and always in terms of consure. By Leading Brand way of homage to the young Queen's gifts the Reformer was proparad to concede that "in presence of har Council she kept herself very grave." Candour compelled him to add that it was otherwise when affairs of State wore die- minsod; as "how soon toever the French fillocks,. fiddlers, and others of that band got the house alone, then might be reen skipping not very comely for honest women.

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During the Coronauting struggle zealous "profesors did not fail to enumerate dancing among the sins of the times. In the course of a t-limony against outstanding defections Patrick Walker, a Cameronina pedlar, writes:

"I have often wondered through my life how any that ever know what it was to bow a knee in earnest to pray durat crook a hough to fyke and fing at pipor's and fldler's springa.".

But Patrick had suffered mineli for his devotion to principle, and allowance must con- sequently be made for the extravagance of his strictures. No batter excuse can be toudered for his bigotry than his own words!

I bless the Lord that ordered my lot so in my dancing days, that made the fear of the bloody rope and bullets to my neck and head, the pain. of hoots, thumbikins qul irons, cold and hunger, wetness and weariness, to stop the lightness of my hord and the wauton ness of my feet."

It is pleasant to turn to, another son of the Covenant, who showed a spirit of toleration somo. what align to the age. This was Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth. Forous eventful mouth the Baronet was compelled to hido in n vault andor the ploturesque charoh in which the inhabitants of the little Berwic shiro parish of Folwarth still worship. At the close of this period of anxiety he escaped to the Continent, where he remained until the Revolution of 1698, when honoura showered thick and fast upon him. During his subsequent career he gares in history as Earl of Marchmont, Batttoman whom adversity could not soar was not spoiled by success. On one occasion, when an entertainment had been arranged for his grandchildren, Lord Marchmont requested to be carried into the room, and over- come the opposition of his family by remarking that, "while unable to dance, he could at least keep time with his foot.” In his old age the

good Earl was often overheard remarking that

nono had so good a reason to be merry and pleased me thos) that served Gol and obeyed His commandments,”

The vcclesiastical Counts ware long strenuous in their efforts to suppress all innocent merry- making. Tins, in 1649, the Kirk Session of Cam- basusthan decreed that men and women "guilty of promiscuous dancing should stand in a public place and confess their fanit." Not until the opening years of the Eighteenth Century was there any foreshadowing of a more tolerant out- look, and widespread was the alarm and couster- nation when, in 1723, Edinburgh added to its attractions a weekly meeting for dancing known ss the Assembly." Ono critic deplored the fact that the ordinary time spent in pablic worship each Lord's Day comes short of the seven hours spent in the Assembly, Another was apprehensive lest the Assembly should rendor the youth of the time offeminate and pre- vent them from serving their country in "the useful arts and sciences." The venture bad the support of Allan Ramsey, and at least two young mon who were destined to achieve success wore. numbered among the dancars. These were Heary Home (afterwards Lord Kames) and William Hamilton of Bangour.

To julgo from a description by Oliver Gold- smith, who later in the century studied at the University, an Edinburgh Assembly must have been a very stiff and formal entertainment:

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"There is the tale now "Rachel Bay") to speak for itself. It is not brilliant, nor in any way very excellent; but it certainly is not very wicked. There is some dancing in the early chapters, donoribed, no doubt, with the approval of the amusement which I have always enter tainad, and it was this to which my friend

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