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The melody appears in the music manuscripts of the Hardy family of Dorset, which included the writer and fiddler Thomas Hardy. "Ask Momma Polka" is mentioned by name in Robert Smith Surtees 1858 novel Ask Momma; or, the Richest Commoner in England, where it is one of the tunes played at the Hunt Ball (p. 398).