Slide left foot to the left; slightly spring forward with right foot, twice, leaving the left foot raised behind, in readiness for next step, (1st bar.) Repeat the same. (2nd bar.) One polka step, during which turn. (3rd bar.) Bring your right foot to the second position, and wait a whole bar. (4th bar.) Resume first step with right foot, and repeat throughout, reversing order of feet.  Lady, as usual, begins with her right foot, doing the same step.

Second step in second part. 1st bar.—­Gentleman, beginning with his left foot, does one polka step to the left, turning partner.

2nd bar.—­Bring right foot to the second position, and bend towards it; wait a whole bar.

3rd bar.—­One polka step with right foot to the right, turning partner.

4th bar.—­Left foot to second position; bend towards it, and wait as before.

Third part.—­Take three polka steps to the left. (This occupies three bars.) Bring right foot to second position, and wait one bar.  Repeat the same, beginning with right foot to the right.

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XVI.—­THE GORLITZA.

This is a Polish round dance for two, which was brought over to London from Paris in 1851.  Like the Varsovienne, it is now seldom seen beyond the walls of the dancing academy.  Perhaps one reason of its short-lived popularity is to be found in the fact that it is rather troublesome to learn, the steps being changed continually.  The time is the same as that of the Schottische, but not quite so quick.  Take your position as for the Polka.

1st bar.—­One polka step to the left, beginning with left foot, and turning half round.

2nd bar.—­Slide your right foot to right, bring left foot up close behind it, as in the fifth position; make a glissade with your right foot, ending with your left in front.

3rd bar.—­Spring on your right foot, raising your left in front.  Fall on your left foot, passing it behind your right foot. Glissade to right with right foot, ending with left in front.

4th bar.—­Again spring on right foot, raising left in front.  Fall on left foot, passing it behind right. Glissade to right, with your right foot; end with same foot in front.  Then repeat from beginning during the next four bars, but the second time be careful to end with the left foot in front.  During the last two bars you turn round, but do not move forward.

The step for the lady is the same, with the order of the feet, as usual, reversed; except, however, in the last two bars of this figure, which both begin with the same foot.

The Gorlitza, like the preceding dance, is divided into parts.  The first part occupies eight bars of the music; the second, sixteen bars.  The step for the second part is as follows:—­

1st four bars.—­Commence with Polka Mazurka step, with left foot to the left, and turn half round.  Then do the step of the Cellarius to the right, beginning with the right foot; fall on left foot, keeping it behind right foot; glissade with right foot, and end with same in front.