The following scene, for example, entitled in a South Union journal "Humbling of Doctors and Divines", would have been unthinkable at the time in the Eastern societies, or even in the West in later years:

In the evening meeting Dr Calvin Morrell and Rev. R. McNemar underwent the following: The Dr. was first laid on the floor and made to lick the dust and lie as one dead - putting the dust on him thus settling the Doctors. They, the chief actors, David Carey and Saml Rollins, next went mockingly to R. McNemar, saying: How do you do, Rev. Sir? This is the great Rev. Mr. McNemarm your vain philosphy and systems of divinity shall be brot down into the dust - they then brot him and dragged him over the floor - rolled him over and over - S. Rollins kicked the dust over him - danced around him putting his foot on his head - D. Carey also put the dust on him, in a sign of burying the Dr. and Divine - after this scene of mortification - the Rev. begain to use scripture in his defence - They silenced him saying, "Not a word out of your mouth - you have explained away the sense of scripture long enough - your head knowledge, shall have an end - Not a sentence out of your mouth." and took him down and humbled him a second time - after this the sign of Esau and Jacob closed the scene.

Analogues: "Jock o' Hazeldean" in Bronson, Traditional Tunes, IV, 401, no. 28, and "The Maid I Left Behind" in Emelyn E. Gardner and Geraldine J. Chickering, Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1939), p. 98.