If you look at the original description for the dance you may wonder about bars 25–32: The ladies are coming out of a right hands across, i.e., they're moving clockwise, but the promenade at the end of the first part goes *anticlockwise*? This is obviously completely counterintuitive, and therefore one must not wonder that it is generally – see Keith Rose's diagram – not actually danced that way, except if one is in Edinburgh and Bill Hamilton is present (he is, however, no longer in a position to complain since he shuffled off this mortal coil in 2021). To be fair, it should be mentioned that Bill Hamilton noticed quite quickly that the anticlockwise promenade perhaps wasn't the greatest of ideas, but he still insisted on the dance as written because he didn't want to change the published description. – The Society republished the dance in <<ddpub:Thirty Popular Dances, Volume Two>> and, as usual, masterfully avoids taking sides in the debate; instead, it leads its readers right into the trap by means of the completely unhelpful explanation, “All four couples dance a promenade round to own places” (which is identical for bars 25–32 and 97–104).

The other place where the published and the popular forms of the dance differ concerns the circle at the very end. Officially, this goes first to the right and then to the left (as a mirror image of the circle at the start of the dance), but it is common to keep going in the same direction (right) throughout the final 8 bars. It may be advisable to seek a consensus before the dance starts in order to avoid struggles, collisions, or dislocated shoulders.