text:  He with much riotousness did superintend all and rejoiced greatly at the noise caused by the hammering and taking down and putting up of bed-hangings and did in no slight measure add thereto by strange outbreaks of riotous mirth such as whooping and screaming; causing confusion at the same time by various demonstrations of his enjoyments such as throwing nails against the windows beating on the floor with the poker and occasionally interrupting our operations by tumbling down stairs and causing us for a moment to believe him killed outright or at least maimed for life