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 +**Style:** Headington (Cotswold) 
 +**Tune:** //The Twenty-Ninth of May// 
 +**Dancers:** 6 
 +**Hankies:** bagged 
 +**Stepping:** Headington double-steps, cross-backs, foot-together-jump 
 +**Source:** Oak Apple Morris via Damaris Rosenow 
 +**Chorus:** #1 & #3: "birdcage": #1, 2, 5, & 6 dance clockwise around the set while #3 & #4 dance around each other      (like a whole gyp) in the center counter-clockwise; half hey.  Repeat. 
 +#2 & #4: "cannons" or "explode": 4 double steps.   
 +  * #1: 1st corners move to just past the center (others dance in place); 
 +  * #2: 2nd corners move to just past the center (others dance in place); 
 +  * #3: 3rd corners move to just past the center (others dance in place); 
 +  * #4: all dancers "explode" outwards.  Then modified half hey, moving in from "exploded" positions.  Repeat. 
 +**Sequence:** once to yourself, foot up, chorus/birdcage, crossover, chorus/cannons, back-to-back, chorus/birdcage, whole hey, chorus/cannons & all-in