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" Mr. Mayor/' said the conjuror, " I have dis- tributed the money myself. " " Pray, sir, to whom ? " inquired the Mayor, still more surprised. f: To my own company, than whom none can be poorer, " replied Breslaw. " This is a trick ! " exclaimed the Mayor in- dignantly. " Sir, " returned the conjuror, " we live by tricks. " In 1773, the Corsican fairy reappeared, having probably made the tour of Europe since her first exhibition in London in 1748, which has been over- looked by some writers, th...ough there is no doubt that the girl exhibited at the latter date was the same person. Two years later, the Turkish rope- dancer, who had displayed his feats in 1744, re- appeared at Bartholomew Fair. In the same year, Rossignol exhibited his performing birds at Sadler's Wells, and afterwards at the Smock Alley theatre, in Dublin. He returned to Sadler's Wells in 1776, where his clever feathered company attracted as And the Old London Fairs. 189 many spectators as before. Twelve or fourteen canaries and linnets were taken from their cages, and placed on a table, in ranks, with paper caps on their heads, and tiny toy muskets under their left wings.
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