Crossword-Solution: RIGODON 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They reminded one irresistibly of the "two crumbly old women" in _Kavanagh_ "who talked about moths, and cheap furniture, and the best cure for rheumatism." The dances were the same as ours, with some small differences: the _rigodon_ is a variation of the quadrille, and the lancers are slightly curtailed.

The first and also the last number of every Filipino dance of any formality is the "_rigodon_." The dancers are arranged in a square, or quadrangle according to the number participating, and are then led through a tangled maze of figures that so utterly bewilders the novice that he sinks into his chair at the end of the dance wondering how it all came to pass.

Then the count went off shrugging his shoulders resignedly and saying: "And I am still more sorry." Passing by the couples, who had commenced the _rigodon_, he returned to the lady of the house, who was at that moment with Manuel Antonio, one of the persons most worthy of note in this period we are recording.

But the _rigodon_ was over and the little group was augmented by the arrival of several other couples.

Everyone who wanted to dance the _Rigodon_, and there were only about three people who did not, sat round the room in an immense square, as for a cotillon, and the band struck up a very jolly old Spanish tune, to which the sides facing each other went through a few simple figures at a very slow walk.