According to Calvin Higbie, as quoted in Paine (MTB 1:195):

In changing partners, whenever he saw a hand raised he would grasp it 
with great pleasure and sail off into another set, oblivious to his 
surroundings. Sometimes he would act as though there were no use in 
trying to go right or to dance like other people, and with his eyes 
closed he would do a hoe-down or a double-shuffle all alone, talking 
to himself and saying that he never dreamed there was so much 
pleasure to be obtained at a ball. It was all as natural as a child's 
play. By the second set, all the ladies were falling over themselves 
to get him for a partner, and most of the crowd, too full of mirth to 
dance, were standing and sitting around, dying with laughter.