Each throws up hands. This is marked in Notation—u.
In striking, handkerchiefs are held bunched together in the hands.
NOTATION OF HAND-STRIKING.
CONSTANT BILLY (STICK DANCE).
In this, sticks are held and used, both in the "A" and "B" music, as explained in "Rigs o' Marlow" (see p. [55]).
Stick-tapping in "B" music is done according to the following diagram: signs, &c., to be read as in diagrams for "Rigs o' Marlow" (see X in music). The beats whereon stick-tappings occur are written in diagram as b. (bar); and h.-b. (half-bar).
In the first bar of "B" music, at half-bar, No. 1, with top end, taps butt of No. 2. In the second bar, at half-bar, No. 2, with top end, taps butt of No. 1. In the third bar, at half-bar, No. 1 taps No. 2 as in first bar. In the fourth bar, No. 1, at the beginning, with the butt, taps No. 2's top end; and at half-bar, No. 1, with top, taps top end of No. 2, thus:—