"Here, too, was 'Tiddy-dol.' This celebrated vendor of gingerbread, from his eccentricity of character, and extensive dealings in his way, was always hailed as the king of itinerant tradesmen. In his person he was tall, well made, and his features handsome. He affected to dress like a person of rank; white gold-laced suit of clothes, laced ruffled shirt, laced hat and feather, white silk stockings, with the addition of a fine white apron. Among his harangues to gain customers, take this as a specimen:--'Mary, Mary, where are you _now_, Mary? I live, when at home, at the second house in Little Ball Street, two steps underground, with a wiscum, riscum, and a why-not. Walk in, ladies and gentlemen; my shop is on the second-floor backwards, with a brass knocker at the door. Here is your nice gingerbread, your spice gingerbread; it will melt in your mouth like a red-hot brick-bat, and rumble in your inside like Punch and his wheelbarrow.' He always finished his address by singing this fag-end of some popular ballad:--Ti-tid-dy, ti-ti, ti-tid-dy, ti-ti, ti-tid-dy, ti-ti, tid-dy, did-dy, dol-lol, ti-tid-dy, ti-tid-dy, ti-ti, tid-dy, tid-dy, dol. Hence arose his nick-name of 'Tiddy-dol.'" In Hogarth's picture of the execution of the idle apprentice at Tyburn, Tiddy-dol is seen holding up a cake of gingerbread, and addressing the crowd in his peculiar style, his costume agreeing with the foregoing description. His proper name was Ford, and so well-known was he that, on his once being missed for a week from his usual stand in the Haymarket, on the unusual occasion of an excursion to a country fair, a "catch-penny" account of his alleged murder was sold in the streets by thousands. In 1721, as appears from a paragraph in the 'London Journal' of May 27th, "the ground on which May Fair formerly stood is marked out for a large square, and several fine streets and houses are to be built upon it." 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.