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