The Lincolnshire ox -- The large hog -- The whale -- Monkeys and wild beasts -- 'The Lest Man and Hors in the World' -- Performing horse Dwarfs and giants -- Human curiosities -- Helen and Judith -- Conjurers -- Posture masters -- Mr. Clinch -- Waxwork -- Mrs. Salmon, etc. -- Westminster Abbey wax-figures -- Powell's puppets -- Moving pictures -- Glass-blowing -- Miraculous fountain -- Winstanley -- His waterworks -- The four Indian chiefs 201 CHAPTER XXII. ROUGH SPORTS. Bear-baiting -- Bear-gardens -- Bull-baiting -- Description -- Extraordinary bull-bait -- Cock-fighting -- Cock-pits -- Value of matches -- Training 223 CHAPTER XXIII. HORSE-RACING, HUNTING, SHOOTING, ETC. The Queen's love of racing -- Visit to Newmarket -- Queen's plates -- Value of matches -- Race meetings -- Tregonwell Frampton -- His horse Dragon -- The Queen's love of hunting -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Fox-hunting -- Stag-hunting -- Hare-hunting -- Coursing -- Packs of hounds -- Fishing -- Hawking -- Netting -- The Game Act -- Shooting sitting and flying -- Match shooting -- Archery 228 CHAPTER XXIV. SWORD-PLAY AND OTHER SPORTS -- GARDEN, ETC. Challenges -- The stakes -- The combatants -- Description of fights -- General combativeness -- Boxing -- Cudgel-playing -- Pedestrianism -- Tennis -- Cricket -- Football -- Skating -- Billiards -- Country wakes -- Bowling -- Bowling greens -- Formal gardening -- Clipping trees -- Books on gardening -- Trees and Flowers -- Town and country life -- Country labourers 237 CHAPTER XXV. THE DRAMA. The theatres -- Dorset Gardens -- Its demolition -- Performances -- Lincoln's Inn Fields -- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane -- Its company -- Mrs. Tofts -- The Queen's Theatre, Haymarket -- Its foundation stone -- Its operas -- Pinkethman's theatre at Greenwich -- The Queen and the stage -- Her reforms -- Strolling players -- Behaviour at the theatre -- Orange wenches -- Stage properties -- Actors -- Betterton -- Verbruggen -- Cave Underhill -- Estcourt -- Dogget -- Colley Cibber -- Wilks -- Booth -- Pinkethman -- Minor Actors -- Actresses -- Mrs. Barry -- Mrs. Bracegirdle -- Mrs. Oldfield -- Mrs. Verbruggen -- The ballet 243 CHAPTER XXVI. OPERAS -- CONCERTS -- MUSIC.