[Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure

[Mac Mckeever via Callers]

One I call frequently is 

Jim's Reel by Steve Snurr

A1 Do Si Di N 1 1/4 ti WL - ladies in center, Rt hand to N     Remember this WL - we will come back to it
     Bal Line - Trun N by R 1/2 - Gents pull by LA2 B&SW PB1 Down hall 4 steps - turn alone - back up 4 steps      For 4 steps - turn alone back up 4 stepsB2 Cir L 5 places until you can collapse to original WL     Bal (on last 4 beats)A1 walk for to new N - as dance starts over
Great dance
Mac McKeever


      From: Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
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 Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 4:20 PM
 Subject: [Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure
   

Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a modified "lines of four down the hall." 

I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the hall. 

I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out there know what the first contra to use this figure is?  

Tavi
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