'Scuse me. WE went rhyming, dressed up, with turnipp lanterns, from door to door as kids in the 60-s and seventies, Sass. We had party pieces, we went from house to house, played the traditional games, etc. We graduated to galloshans as teens and young adults - same idea; dressing up, and singing trad songs at doors, and farms - though as the night wore on, the memories got - er - hazy! The galloshans usually started at the manse - or one of them, as the town had two ministers of the Kirk - the manse being the name for a ministers house. Both were very special friends of mine, but we liked Dan's manse....his taste in 'the cratur' was a gift he handed down to me. Sometimes those on gallowshans would take gifts to housebound people (This usually happened early in the evening....doing it later on would have been very hit and miss....) That was definately NOT the sixteenth century. (Not unless Slade was around then, which wouldn't surprise me)