Manuscript poem of 328 lines, probably composed by Mark Lonsdale, of a rural "dance, or merry meeting." The author notes that in this "free sketch ad vivum of a Cumberland upshot (as taken twenty years ago) the manners and dialect of Great Orton, a village four miles west of Carlisle, are intended to form the ground of the picture." Several pages of notes discuss nicknames of characters and other aspects of the dialect, pronunciation, and spelling: "In the following notes, information is the first object, and next to that, entertainment; but without attemtping to gratify either the antiquarian or the satyrist." He concludes: "The author is proud to acknowledge that the scenes and characters herein described, are those of his native place."
