_October 5, 1810._ _Sports of a Country Fair._ Part the Second.--A nearer view of the same fair: the thick of the crowd; stick-throwing for snuffboxes, oyster-opening, pocket-picking, and a round-about swing; one of the boats is giving way, and a fair swinger and her swain are falling through. There is an inn where cordials are supplied, through the windows of which various scenes of love-making are visible. In the distance may be seen Polito's stage-booths, horse-racing, and other diversions. _October, 1810._ _Sports of a Country Fair._ Part the Third. Published by T. Tegg.--The interior of another booth-theatre; the play is interrupted; the only performer on the stage is thrown into consternation, and the whole of the audience are dispersing in terror at an unexpected intruder. A royal Bengal tiger has made his escape from an adjoining show, and is bounding through the canvas walls of the theatrical booth, threatening to descend plump into the auditorium. The effect on the frightened playgoers may be well imagined. Some are prostrate with terror; one man is down on his knees and cannot move for fright; ladies are fainting; husbands are manfully endeavouring to carry off their wives out of the way of the terrible visitor, and everything is turned topsy-turvy. 1810. _Sports of a Country Fair._--The sport in this case is accidental, and the amusement verges on peril of a terrible character. A temporary theatre, _Cockburn's Company_, is on fire, and the spectators are escaping as best they may. The entrance is from a balcony reached by a flight of steps, and the frightened spectators are pouring out of the building, which is burning furiously, and throwing themselves pellmell down the steps, at the bottom of which they are sprawling, kicking, and plunging in fright and confusion. Certain buxom damsels are climbing over the balustrade and dropping from the balcony, with the musicians, into the arms of those below. A bill on the booth announces the _Last Night, Pizarro_ and _Don Juan, A Shower of Real Fire_, and _A View of the Infernal Regions_. Crowds are scudding away in the distance, and the other attractions of the fair are at a standstill. _October 25, 1810._ _An Old Ewe Drest Lamb Fashion._ Published by T. Tegg. A deceptive old tabby, clad in a juvenile style, is dashing along in a high poke-bonnet; three or four Don Juans of eccentric exterior are hurrying after her to tender their attentions, an act of gallantry they are likely to regret on closer inspection. The quotation offered as _A Misery of Human Life_ runs thus: 'Walking fast and far to overtake a woman from whose shape and air as viewed _en derrière_ you have decided that her face is angelic, till, on eagerly turning round as you pass her, you are petrified by a Gorgon.' [Illustration: SPITFIRES.] _October 25, 1810._ _Spitfires._ Published by T. Tegg (44).