browning bows left handed

how much is a (left-handed grip) Brown Bear double-compound bow worth?

It belonged to my father and want to know how much to sell it for, since I’m not left-handed.
It is in absolutly, mint condition with very little use. It also has adjustable sights on it.

Check EBAY.

2008 Browning micro midas 4 bow for sale on craigslist

browning bows left handed

Wood Floor terminology. Hardwood floors, Fairfax, Virginia

• Adhesive: A substance capable of holding materials together by surface attachment. It is a general term that includes cement, mucilage and paste and glue.
• Anisotropic: Exhibiting different properties when measured along different axes. In general, fibrous materials such as wood are anisotropic.
• Balanced construction: constructed so that the forces induced by uniformly distributed changes in moisture content does not cause distortion. Symmetrical wooden building in which the grain of each layer is perpendicular to the layer is balanced construction.
• bark pocket is an opening between the growth rings annual contains bark. Bark pockets appear as dark bands radial surfaces and as rounded areas on tangential surfaces.
• Manga One element of the support structure for a load applied perpendicular to it.
• Birdseye: small localized areas in wood with fibers indented and otherwise contorted to form few to many small circular or elliptical figures remotely resembling birds' eyes on the tangential surface. Sometimes in the sugar maple and used for decorative purposes, rare in other species hardwoods.
• Blister: An increase the surface of a member, like the shape a blister on the human skin, following its borders indefinitely, and may be broken and flattened. (A blister may be caused by insufficient adhesive, improper drying time, temperature or pressure, or trapped water or solvent vapors.)
• Board Foot: A unit of measure represented by a plank of wood 12 "long, 12 cm wide and 1cm thick, or its equivalent cubes. In practice, calculating board feet of lumber 1 inch or more in thickness is based on the nominal thickness and width and the actual length. Wood with a thickness of less than 1 inch 1 inch is calculated
• Bond: (1) The welding of materials by bonding. (2) Contact materials using an adhesive.
• Adhesion: The unit load applied in tension, compression, flexural, impact, peel, cleavage, or shear necessary to break an adhesive assembly with failure occurring at or near the plane of the bond.
• Bow: The distortion of lumber in which A gap exists in a direction perpendicular to the flat face of a straight line from one end of the room.
• Box Beam: A beam constructed solid wood flanges and plywood or Web products and wooden panels.
• In the case of the heart: the term used when the bone is completely in the four sides of a piece of wood anywhere in its length. Also known is the marrow in the case.
• Burl: (1) Following the drive, woody plants a tree, more or less rounded in form, usually resulting growth embracing a group of adventitious buds. These nodes are the source the burl wood is very figurative used purely ornamental. (2) wood or veneer, a serious distortion localized grain generally rounded, generally resulting from the proliferation of dead branch stubs, one to several centimeters (half to several inches) in diameter, which often includes one or more groups of several small contiguous conical protuberances, each usually has a nucleus or spinal, but not a significant amount of tangential _in grained) that surrounds it.
• Cambium: A thin layer of tissue between bark and wood that is subdivided into several possibilities form new wood and bark cells.
• Song: A newspaper that has been slabbed on one or more sides. In general, Candidates for resaw at right angles to their broadest face sawing. The term is used freely. (See Flitch)
• Sealing: a state stress and put in dry wood is characterized by a compressive stress in the outer layers and tensile stresses in the center or core.
• Cell: A term General anatomical units of plant tissue, including wood fibers, vessel members, and other elements of diverse structure and function.
• Cellulose: The carbohydrate fraction is the principle of wood and provides a framework of wood cells.
• Tickets: A separation along the wood normally extends through the rings of annual growth, often the result of constraints introduced in the wood during drying.
• Cohesion The state in which the components of the mass of material held together by chemical and physical forces.
• Lack of understanding: the deformation Wood fibers as a result of excessive compression along the grain, either live or final compression bending. It can grow on trees due to bending by wind or snow or internal longitudinal stresses developed in growth, or may result from constraints imposed by the tree is cut. In the wood surface, defects may appear as compression wrinkles on the face of the coin.
• Corbel: A projection of one on a wall or column supporting weight.
• Crook: The distortion of lumber in which there is a gap in a direction perpendicular to the edge of a straight line from one end of the room.
• Decay: The decomposition of wood substance by fungi.
  Advanced (Typical) Decay: The best stage of decomposition in which the destruction is easily recognized because the wood has become punky, soft and spongy, fibrous, ringshaked, pitted or crumbly. Decided discoloration or bleaching of wood rotten is often apparent.
• Brown rot: wood, one deterioration of the attack focuses on the cellulose and associated carbohydrates rather than the lignin, producing a light to dark brown friable residue – so vaguely called "dry rot." An advanced stage, when the wood splits along rectangular planes, contraction, called the "dry rot."
• Dry Rot: A term used freely to any dry, crumbly rot but especially one who is at an advanced stage, the wood can be crushed easily a dry powder. The term is actually a misnomer suitable for any damage, since all fungi require moisture for growth.
• incipient disintegration: The initial phase of decomposition is not advanced enough to soften or significantly impair the hardness of wood. Usually accompanied by a slight discoloration or bleaching.
• Heart Rot: The limits functionality for wood rot heart. It usually comes from the tree of life.
• Pocket Rot advanced caries appears as a hole or pocket, generally surrounded by apparently sound wood.
• Soft Rot: A particular type of setback in the development of very wet (as in cooling towers and wooden boat) in the outer layers of wood, caused by the destruction of microscopic fungi that attack the cellulose in secondary cell wall and intercellular layer.
• White Rot: Wood, deterioration or rot attacking both the cellulose and lignin, producing a white residue which can generally be spongy or stringy rot, or decay pocket.
• Delamination: The separation of layers of laminated wood or plywood because cons the failure of the adhesive, either within the adhesive itself or at the interface between the adhesive and the adhesive surface.
• Density: generally refers to the wood of the normal cellular form, density is mass per unit volume of timber enclosed within a wooden surface, the most complex vacuum. It is variously expressed in pounds per cubic foot, kilogram per cubic meter, or grams per cubic centimeter at a specified moisture content.
• Dewpoint: The temperature at which a vapor begins to deposit under liquid. This applies especially to water in the atmosphere.
• In early wood: The portion of the growth ring formed during the first part of the growing season. Usually, less dense and weaker mechanically than latewood. Also called Springwood.
• Equilibrium moisture content: moisture content of wood neither gains nor loses moisture when surrounded by air a given relative humidity and temperature.
• saturation point fiber step of drying or wetting wood at which cell walls are saturated and the cell cavities free water. It applies to a cell or group of cells, and not all boards. It is generally considered about 30% moisture by weight on oven-dry.
• Figure: The model produces a wood surface by annual growth rings, rays, knots, deviations from regular grain, such as interlocked and wavy, and irregular staining.
• Filling: In woodworking, any substance used to fill gaps and irregularities in planed or sanded surfaces to decrease the porosity of the surface before applying coatings. Applied to adhesives, a relatively non-adhesive substance Add adhesive to improve its working properties, strength or other qualities.
• Finish (Finish): (1) wood products such as doors, stairs and other work required to complete either a building of the Interior together. (2) coats of paint, varnish, lacquer, wax, or other similar events wood surfaces to protect and improve their durability or appearance.
• Cola: In the beginning a hard gelatin comes from skins, tendons, cartilage, bone, etc., animals. In addition, an adhesive prepared from this substance in hot water. Grace the general use of the term is now synonymous with the term "Gang".
• Quality: The description of the quality of a piece of wood or manufactured logs.
• Grain: The direction, size, according to the appearance, or quality of wood fibers or wood. To be meaningful specific term should be qualified.
• In fine-grained (fine grain) wood: Wood with narrow rings, discrete annual. The term is sometimes used to designate wood with small and closely spaced pores, but in this sense, the term "fine texture" is used more frequently.
• wood grosgrain: wood with wide growth rings visible in which there are many difference between earlywood and latewood. The term is sometimes used to designate wood with large pores, such as oak, Keruing, Meranti, and walnut, but in this sense, the term "open-grain" is used more frequently.
• wood Cross Grain: The wood in which the fibers deviate from a line parallel to the sides of the room. Cross grain may be diagonal or spiral grain or a combination of both.
• Curly grained wood: The wood in which the fibers are so distorted that look rough, like a bird "of wood. The areas showing curly grain may vary up to several inches in diameter.
• Diagonal wood grain wood, where cycles Annual at an angle to the axis of part a result of the cut at an angle with the bark or trunk. A form of grain of the Cross.
• grain boundaries of wood timber that was cut so that the surfaces of range extends approximately at right angles to the rings of annual growth. The wood considered the limit of the grain when it rings at an angle of 45 ° to 90 ° to the surface of the beach part.
• Woodgrain Finish: The grain as seen in a cut at right angles to the direction of fibers (eg, in a cross section of a tree).
• Fiddleback wood grain: the figure produced by a type of curly fine, for example, species such as maple, the wood traditionally used for the back of violins.
• Romano beans (cut flat) Wood: Wood has been sawn parallel to the pith and approximately tangent to the growth rings. The wood considered flat grained when the annual growth rings form an angle of less than 45 ° to the surface of the workpiece.
• Interlocking grain wood grain fiber which has been for many years may slope in a strong leadership, and after several years of the slope in one direction is reversed the left hand, and later changes a step backwards towards the right, and so on. This wood is very difficult to separate radially, but tangentially may divide easily.
• Open the wood grain: common classification for woods with large pores such as oak, Keruing, Meranti, and walnut. Also known "Coarse."
• Plainsawn Wood: Another term for timber slab.
• Quartersawn Wood: Another term for wood grain edge.
• coarse Wood: Another term for timber slab.
• Woodgrain Slash: Another term for the year flat grain.
• Wood Spiral grain: The wood in which the fibers follow a spiral course about the trunk of a tree instead of the normal vertical. The spiral may extend in the direction of left and right handed in all the tree trunk. Spiral grain is a grain shape of the Cross.
• straight-grained wood: The wood in which the fibers are parallel to the axis of a piece.
• Vertical Wood Grain: Another term for wood grain edge.
• Wavy Grain of wood The timber in which the fibers together in the waves or wave.
• Green: Simply sawn or undried wood. The wood has become completely wet after immersion in water would not be considered green, but can be said in the statement "green."
• Growth ring: Layer of wood growth put on a tree during a season of growth. In the temperate zone, the growth rings of many species (eg, oak and pines) are readily distinguishable because of differences in the cells formed at the beginning and end of season. In some temperate species (black gum and sweet gum) and many tropical species, growth rings are not easy to recognize a year.
• Hardness: A property timber that allows it to resist indentation.
• Hardwoods: Usually a tree botanical groups have vessels or pores and broad leaves, unlike the conifers or softwoods. The term does not refer to the actual hardness of wood.
• Wood: The wood extending from the pith sapwood, the cells no longer participate in the process of the tree. Heartwood may contain phenolic compounds, gums, resins and other materials that are generally darker and more decay resistant than sapwood.
• Isotropic: Exhibiting the same properties in all directions.
• Mixed: the union of two pieces of wood or metal.
• Bondline: The place where you do two surfaces to be bonded with a layer of glue.
• Butt Joint: A final set formed by the ends adjacent to the square of both parties.
• Edge Joint: A joint mission by the edge of binding two pieces of wood together on board, usually by gluing. The joints can be made by gluing two square edges, in a plain edge joint or by using joint processing of various types, such as the joints of the tongue and groove.
• common goal: making the junction of two pieces of wood together to end usually at the end of the game
• Finger Joint: A final series consists of several pieces of mesh or fingers of wood bonded together with glue. The fingers are inclined and can be cut parallel to the face is broad or close the room.
• Width: one of a series of parallel beams used to support floor and roof loads and supported its turn by larger beams, girders or walls.
• Four: a chamber controlled air flow, temperature and relative humidity for drying wood. Increasing the drying temperature rose and the relative humidity decreases.
• Node: The part of a branch or a member has been surrounded by subsequent growth of the mother. The shape of the knot as it appears on a cut surface depends on the angle the cut from the longitudinal axis of the node.
• Encased Knot: a knot whose rings of annual growth are not Homegrown things with wood in the vicinity.
• Inter-grown Knot: a knot whose rings of annual growth are completely grown up with the surrounding wood.
• loose knot: a knot that is not held firmly in place by growth or position and can not be relied upon to stay in place.
• Pine Knot: A knot that is only 12 mm (1 / 2 inches) in diameter.
• Sound Knot: A knot that is solid with its face, at least as hard as the surrounding wood and shows no sign of decline.
• Spike Knot: A knot cut approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis so that the exposed is certainly lying.
• Laminate: A product manufactured by the union of two or more layers (plies) or materials.
  Laminated timber: A montage by bonding layers of veneer or lumber with an adhesive so that the grain of all layers is substantially parallel.
• Latewood: Part of the growth ring formed after the earlywood formation has ceased. In general, denser and stronger than the earlywood. (Also known as wood in summer.)
• Wood: The product of the sawmill and planning for the manufacturing sector is limited along the sawing, ripping through a standard machine planning, cross the length and consistency. Wood can be made from softwood or hardwood. (See also wood dimension.)
• Tip: The wood is less than 38 mm standard (nominal 2 inch) thick and over 38 mm standard (nominal 2 inch) wide. Rooms less than 140 mm standard (nominal 6 inch) wide strips are sometimes called.
• Size: Wood with a standard thickness of 38mm (2 "nominal) standard but not including 114 mm (2 "nominal).
• Dress Size: The size of wood having been covered with a planning machine. The dressed size is usually ½ to ¾ inch below the nominal or rough size. A 2-in-4 "amount, for example, actually measures about 1 ½ 3 ½ inches (standard 38-by-89 mm).
• Factory and shop lumber: cut wood intended for use in manufacturing. It is classified in the percentage of the area that will produce a limited number of sections of a minimum size and quality.
• Assorted wood: Lumber that is shaped edge dressed and make a watertight seal grooves and tabs on the edges or ends when laid edge to edge or end to end.
• Nominal Size: As applied to wood or wood, the size of what is known and sold on the market (often different from the real size).
• Wood model: wood in the shape of a pattern or molded form in addition to being dressed, with or shiplapped, or any combination of this work.
• Raw wood: wood that has not been dressed (surface), but has been cut, edged and trimmed.
• Planed: Wood is dressed in a traveling brush.
• Wood: Wood is standard 114 mm (nominal 5 in.) or more than size. Lumber can be used as beams, joists, posts, caps, frames, beams or straps.
• Filler: A material with adhesive properties, is generally used in relatively thick sections that can be easily applied by extrusion, trowel, or spatula. (See Adhesive.)
• Carpenter: planed wood and reasons for finishing the building, including items such as sheets, doors, cornices, coffered ceilings, and other decorative items for inside or outside. Not include floor, ceiling or lining.
• Mineral Streak: Discoloration olive green or brown-black of undetermined cause in hardwoods.
• Water content: The amount of water contained in the wood, usually expressed as a percentage of dry weight of wood.
• Molding: A wood strip with a curved or projecting surface used decorative purposes.
• Mortise: A slot in a table, a table, or wood to form a joint.
• Naval Stores: A term applied oils, resins, tar, and land from the oleoresin contained in the exudate or extracted from trees, mainly species pine (Pinus). Historically, these are important elements in the stores wooden sailing ships.
• Old forests: wood from forests mature, established naturally. When the trees have grown during most if not all of their working lives in competition with similar sunlight and moisture, This wood is generally straight and relatively free of knots.
• Anhydrous wood: the wood is dried at a relatively constant weight in a convection oven at 102 ° C to 105 ° C (215 ° F to 220 ° F).
• Radial short cells with simple pits and operating primarily in the metabolism and storage of food products from the factory. They remain alive more than tracheids, fibers and vessel elements, sometimes for many years. There are two types of parenchyma cells are recognized – the vertical lines, more particularly known as axial parenchyma, and the horizontal series of lightning, and known as the radial parenchyma.
• Battery: A long, solid wood, round or square, which is deeply buried in the soil to provide a solid basis for structures built on sites soft, wet or submerged (eg, batteries or bridge abutments).
• Pocket size: An opening extending parallel to the rings of annual growth, containing or having contained, pitch, solid or liquid.
• Striped Pitch: an accumulation of clear height in a chain of more or less regular in the wood of certain conifers.
• Bone: occurring small, soft base near the center of a tree trunk, branches, twigs, or trunk.
• Plank: A board width, thickness established with its large horizontal and used as a bearing surface.
• Plywood: A panel of glulam made of relatively thin layers of veneer with grain of adjacent layers at right angles, or in combination with the sheet with a core of wood or reconstituted wood. The buildings usually have an odd number of layers.
• Psychrometer: An instrument for measuring the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. It was a little dry and wet bulb thermometer. The bulb of the thermometer is moist and humid is cooled by evaporation at a temperature lower than shown by the dry bulb. Because evaporation is greater in dry air, the difference between the two thermometer readings greater when the air is dry when wet.
• Radial: Coinciding with a radius of the axis of the tree or log to the circumference. A radial section is a longitudinal section in a plane that passes through the axis of the trunk.
• High Grain: a state of rough wood which clothed the hard latewood raised above Wood infancy but it is not clear.
• Ray Wood: Strips of cells extending radially within a tree whose height varies from few cells of some species to 4 inches or more in oak. The rays are mainly food storage and transport in a horizontal position in the tree. oak area, the rays form a visible figure, sometimes called spots.
• Humidity relative relationship between the amount of water vapor in air so that air is maintained at saturation at the same temperature. It is generally considered on the basis of weight steam, but, accuracy, should be considered on the basis of vapor pressures.
• Resin: (1) solid, semisolid or solid resin pseudo – A substance organic tends to flow when subjected to stress in general has a softening or melting range, and fractures in general Concho entertainment. (2) resin liquid – a liquid organic polymer which, when converted to its final state of use, becomes a resin.
• ducts resin: Intercellular passages that contain and transmit resinous materials. In a cutting surface are generally discreet. They may extend vertically parallel the shaft axis or at right angles to the axis and parallel to the rays.
• Ring Error: The separation wood during drying, occur along the vein and parallel to the growth rings. (See Shake.)
• Porous Woods: A group of hardwoods in which the pores are relatively large at the beginning of each annual ring and decrease in size more or less abruptly toward the outside of the ring, forming separate area within the pores, known as the wood at the beginning, and an outer zone with smaller pores, known as the latewood.
• Rip: To cut length parallel to the grain.
• Sapwood: Wood pale color near the outside of the box. In most conditions the sapwood is more susceptible to decay than heartwood.
• Saw cut (1) grooves or notches made in cutting with a saw. (2) The part of a trunk, wood or other piece of wood removed by the saw in the starting material into two pieces.
• Seasoning: Removing moisture green wood to improve its service.
• Air dry: dry when exposed to air in a yard or shed without artificial heat.
• Kiln-dried: dried in an oven at the use of artificial heat.
• Second Growth: The wood has developed after the removal, either by cutting, fire, wind, or other body of all or a substantial part of the position.
• Shake: A separation along the grain, most of which occurs between the rings of annual growth. Generally regarded as having taken place in the tree up or during slaughter.
• Softwoods: Generally, one of the botanical groups of trees which have no ships and in most cases, have leaves like needles or scale, conifers, also the wood produced by trees. The term does not refer to the actual hardness wood.
• Coloring: wood discoloration can be caused by these organisms as diverse as micro-organisms, metals or chemicals. The term also applies to materials used to give color to the wood.
• Force: (1) The ability of a member to sustain stress without failure. (2) a specific test mode, the maximum stress sustained by a member loaded to failure.
• Raito Force: The relationship hypothesis strength of a structural element, if it would not have the characteristics of the reduction of force "(such as knots, slope of grain, shake).
• Lumber: wood pieces of relatively large size, strength or stiffness of which is the controlling factor in their selection and use. Examples are timber trestle beams (stringers, caps, columns, beams, bracing, bridge ties, guardrails), the car Wood (chassis, not the executive, car bodies), preparation for construction (posts, beams, girders), the wooden ship (ship wooden decks of ships), and arms crossed poles.
• Substrate: surface material on which broadcasts containing an adhesive substance for any what purpose, such as bonding or coating.
• Tack: The property of an adhesive that allows you to form a bond of measurable strength immediately after adhesive and adherent are brought into contact under low pressure.
• Texture: A term often used interchangeably with grain. Sometimes is used to combine the concepts of density and degree of contrast between earlywood and latewood. In this manual, texture refers to the fine structure of wood (see grain) instead of rings.
• Wood, roundwood used in the original round shape, such as poles, piling, posts and beams in mines.
• Wood Standing: Wood still on the stump.
• Trim: The finish materials in a building, such as moldings, applied around openings (windows, door trim strips) or on the floor and ceiling of rooms (baseboard, cornice, etc.).
• Twist: A distortion caused by shooting or liquidation of the edges of a board so that the four corners of a face are no longer in the same plane.
• vapor: A material high resistance to vapor movement, such as paper, plastic film or specially coated paper that is used in combination with insulation control condensation.
• Veneer: A thin layer or sheet of wood.
  Rotary Cut Veneer: Veneer in a tower that turns a newspaper or a bolt, located in the center, before a knife.
• Sawing: sheet produced by sawing.
• leaf: leaf that is cut from a log, bolt or contact with a knife.
• Virgin growth: growth of mature trees in the forest of origin.
• Fade: Bark or lack of wood from any cause at the edge or corner of a piece with the exception of the edges of relief.
• Warp: Any variation of the truth or surface flat. Warp includes bow, thief, cup and twist, or any combination thereof.
• Waterproof: a liquid that penetrates wood which retards the content changes Water and dimensions of dry wood without adversely modify desirable properties.
• Conservation of water repellent: a water repellent that contains a preservative which, after application to wood and drying the dual purpose of providing resistance to attack by fungi or insects and also retards changes in moisture content.
• Aging: The chemical and mechanical disintegration or discoloration of the surface of wood caused by exposure to light, the action of dust and sand carried by the wind, and the alternate contraction and expansion of the area fibers with a continuous variation of moisture content brought by climate change. Aging does not include the decline.

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Help identify please !!!!!!! famous paintings?

I identify some paints. East supposed to be famous. I have three out of ten …… Not good. This is a series that appeared on the commemorative coins of Uganda, entitled "paintings." Neither the number of currencies, the tables appear in searches. I would appreciate any help! They are as follows: A dancer (I looked Degas, and could not find it). She is wearing a white knee flowing blue dress with large bow. It looks right. feet before the point of the left leg and right leg pointing toward the right. She leaned forward so that your head touches the right knee. A prince is defined as a person, reminiscent of Genghis Khan stylized riding. Horse is white with brown. Before law. Horse raised right forefoot. Quiver of arrows behind warrior. Bust, the man in the hat. The man leans on a table, his face in his right hand, the handshake. Waering dark blue. His hat is so wrong white beret. The man has a mustache. They must contine the next question! Out of space!

Well, the man you describe is Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Gachet (the doctor who lived in the last months of his life), 1890, Paris, Musée d'Orsay http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0753.htm Prince See you describe is the Emperor Qianlong of Armour ceremony on horseback, 1739 or 1758, by Giuseppe Castiglione (Chinese name Lang Shining, 1688-1766). Pendant Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. The Palace Museum, 1758 Beijing.1739 moves right or down to reach the http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp3.blogger.com/_GzQnzaF4k- Image http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html&h=400&w=288&sz=31&hl=en&start=40&tbnid=iRkjwDXiB76ZhM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=89&prev o/RcwsXX-YNUI/AAAAAAAABlU/E4eyeyU4z9Q/s400/The_Qianlong_Emperor_in_Ceremonial_Armour_on_Horseback.jpg and imgrefurl = /%%%% 3Fq images 3Dpainting 2Bwarrior 2Bhorseback 2Barrows%% 26start% 3D20% 26gbv% 3D2% 26ndsp% 3D20% 26hl% 3Den% 26sa% 3DN

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Lets Dance, Dance and Dance in Dance Party

Once a boy or a girl entered in Dance Party all they expect is to dance. Dance may be of many types and style. But the best dance is that when all party youngster dance together putting hand in hand without any trace of heartbreak. This article is to provide you with different types of dance for your Dance Party.

By the time the Grand March is over everyone will feel sufficiently “in” and will not retire to a corner, but just to avoid that possibility it is well to suggest a “Virginia Reel” an old-fashioned country dance that is easily explained.

The players stand well apart in lines or sets of about six couples facing each other. The boys line is at the left of the girls when they turn to march. All the couples go through the figures at the same time. While the music is being played or sung the leader should call the figures as follows:
Forward and bow right hand swing
Left hand swing: both hand swings do right:
Do si do left
Arm right
Arm left
Head couple lead

Each player advances three steps, bows to partner and returns to place.
Partners advance, join right hands, and turn each other.
Partners join left hands and turn.
Partners join both hands and turn.
Partners fold arms and walk around each other, passing on the right and walking backward to place.
Partners fold arms and walk around, passing on the left and walking backward to place. Partners hook right arms and swing around. Partners hook left arms and swing around.
YOUR LINES AWAY: The girl in the first couple turns to the right and the boy to the left, and the others follow: They march down outside their respective lines, clapping hands in time to the music. When the first couple meets at the foot of the lines, they join hands and form a bridge. As the following couples meet they march under the bridge to their places, the second couple thus becoming the first. The game is continued until each couple has acted as first cou-pie.

At the conclusion of this dance the youngsters will have lost all shyness and be ready to dance the social dances. To add variety to the evening choose two boys and give each a brush, and give two girls each a lemon. A boy may step up to any lad and brush him off with his brush. The lad being brushed must relinquish his girl to the brusher and accept the brush. Then is his chance to brush off some other fellow.

The girls with the lemons in the meantime may step up to any dancing girl and hand her a lemon. That girl must accept the lemon and relinquish her partner to the first girl. This takes away the formality of too stiff a dance and prevents any one person from being stuck with a poor dancer.

A further variation to the program may be added by circle dances in which the couples all dance around a circle and at a given signal the boys step forward to the next girl and the girls backward to the boy behind. This is lots of fun and can be used with any conventional dance step such as the waltz, the two-step, the schottische or fox trot. For this informal dance, a paper-bag supper will provide informal refreshments for informal appetites. Let the girls take one of the brown paper sacks, which contains lunch for two, and pick a lad to eat with her. These bags can contain two paper cups, each filled with chicken salad and wrapped in waxed paper. Two deviled eggs will be quickly devoured (use a bright canape stick in each to hold the halves together). Tiny cakes, cookies, or ice-cream sandwiches (put in the bag just before serving) will do nicely for the sweet tooth.

We guarantee that this very first dance will be long remembered for its fun and thrills, without a trace of heartbreak for even the shyest.

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Help me find the title to this painting, the artist is Degas?

I’m looking for the title to this painting and i’ve looked everywhere could someone please help:
here’s a descripton: It’s not a painting but kind of like a quick sketch in charcoal and pastels.
The woman has brownish orange hair her right hand is on her head and her left arm is straight in the air, her expression looks pained. She’s probalby a dancer becasue shes wearing a dress with a poofy skirt and a white bow, and i think shes wearing brown boots
thanks

Is this it?
Edgar Degas. Tired Dancer. c. 1882-85. Pastel.
Kimbell Art Museum, Texas

http://www.abcgallery.com/D/degas/degas46.html

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