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