Note 93 — PATRICK’S DAY.

This is the only occasion on which country dances are performed at the Irish Court. The ball on Patrick’s night is always opened by the lively dance of “Patrick’s day.” The Dowagers of both sexes then come into play; and the “Irish trot” of many a veteran belle, recals the good old times of the Rutland Court; when French quadrilles were “undreamed of in the philosophy” of the dancing of that noted epoch.