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   On the night that they would have the ball the first thing they would do at the ball was, that two people would sing. The next thing they would do was that four people would dress two boys and two girls. The boys would dress like two old men and they would have a whisker on with gray wool(?) and they would have garters on their knees made of straws and tied on the trousers. The two girls would be dressed then with big long dresses on them selves and they would have a handful of lint on their heads letting on it was gray hair, and white caps with a nice border round the edge. Then them four would come in then and dance a breakdown.

   Then after that they dancing would commence together and every body would sing until about ten o'clock. Then they would have a little drink; the men would have a little of whiskey and the women wine and claret. After they would go

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