Attempts to Suppress the Shows at Bartholomew Fair--A remarkable Dutch Boy--Theatrical Booths at the London Fairs-- Penkethman, the Comedian--May Fair--Barnes and Finley--Lady Mary--Doggett, the Comedian--Simpson, the Vaulter--Clench, the Whistler--A Show at Charing Cross--Another Performing Horse--Powell and Crawley, the Puppet-Showmen--Miles's Music-Booth--Settle and Mrs. Mynn--Southwark Fair--Mrs. Horton, the Actress--Bullock and Leigh--Penkethman and Pack-- Boheme, the Actor--Suppression of May Fair--Woodward, the Comedian--A Female Hercules--Tiddy-dol, the Gingerbread Vendor 66 CHAPTER V. Bartholomew Fair Theatricals--Lee, the Theatrical Printer-- Harper, the Comedian--Rayner and Pullen--Fielding, the Novelist, a Showman--Cibber's Booth--Hippisley, the Actor-- Fire in Bartholomew Fair--Fawkes, the Conjuror--Royal Visit to Fielding's Booth--Yeates, the Showman--Mrs. Pritchard, the Actress--Southwark Fair--Tottenham Court Fair--Ryan, the Actor--Hallam's Booth--Griffin, the Actor--Visit of the Prince of Wales to Bartholomew Fair--Laguerre's Booth-- Heidegger--More Theatrical Booths--Their Suppression at Bartholomew Fair--Hogarth at Southwark Fair--Violante, the Rope-Dancer--Cadman, the Flying Man 102 CHAPTER VI. A new Race of Showmen--Yeates, the Conjuror--The Turkish Rope-Walker--Pan and the Oronutu Savage--The Corsican Fairy-- Perry's Menagerie--The Riobiscay and the Double Cow--A Mermaid at the Fairs--Garrick at Bartholomew Fair--Yates's Theatrical Booth--Dwarfs and Giants--The Female Samson--Riots at Bartholomew Fair--Ballard's Animal Comedians--Evans, the Wire-Walker--Southwark Fair--Wax-work Show--Shuter, the Comedian--Bisset, the Animal Trainer--Powell, the Fire-Eater--Roger Smith, the Bell-Player--Suppression of Southwark Fair 147 CHAPTER VII. Yates and Shuter--Cat Harris--Mechanical Singing Birds-- Lecture on Heads--Pidcock's Menagerie--Breslaw, the Conjuror--Reappearance of the Corsican Fairy--Gaetano, the Bird Imitator--Rossignol's Performing Birds--Ambroise, the Showman--Brunn, the Juggler, on the Wire--Riot at Bartholomew Fair--Dancing Serpents--Flockton, the Puppet-Showman--Royal Visit to Bartholomew Fair--Lane, the Conjuror--Hall's Museum--O'Brien, the Irish Giant--Baker's Theatre--Joel Tarvey and Lewis Owen, the popular Clowns 180 CHAPTER VIII. Lady Holland's Mob--Kelham Whiteland, the Dwarf--Flockton, the Conjuror and Puppet-Showman--Wonderful Rams--Miss Morgan, the Dwarf--Flockton's Will--Gyngell, the Conjuror--Jobson, the Puppet-Showman--Abraham Saunders--Menageries of Miles and Polito--Miss Biffin--Philip Astley 198 CHAPTER IX.