May-Day Gaiety

A man and a smaller masked figure, who is holding a stick topped with a basket adorned with plants and bells, are seen wearing fancy clothes. The full caption goes on:

These men hire old dresses, and join the Cinder-sifter’s or Bunter’s Garland, or Jack in the Green, etc., and exhibit all sorts of grimace and ribaldry, to extort money from their numerous admirers.