"The season was cheerful, the weather was bright,
When a number assembled to frolic all night."
At Aunt Nabby's, "where kisses and drams set the virgins on flame," horseplay soon developed. Ears of corn were thrown, especially at loving couples, the girls were tumbled about on the husks and practical jokes found their victims. When supper was ready
"Like crows round a carcass each one took his place
"The girls in a huddle stand snickering by
Till Jenny and Kate have fingered the pie."
And after supper the "scenes of vile lewdness" abashed the country schoolmaster:
"The chairs in wild order flew quite round the room:
Some threatened with fire brands, some branished a broom,
While others, resolved to increase the uproar,
Lay tussling the girls in wide heaps on the floor."