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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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country folk. In the faces of some ofthe dolls are stuck clay pipes, and the lucky adventurerwho can throw a wooden ball between the grinning jawscan (in the words of the proprietor) taike is chiceof enyfink hon the stall ; for the proprietor is from Lunnon, and the stall bears above its gaily colouredawning the mendacious announcement, Patronisedby the Royal Family. To the left is a circus and menagerie—a travel-worncanvas tent surmounted above the entrance by weather-worn representations in once gaudy colours of theattractions within. It must have been in some suchtent as this that the redoubtable Sergeant Troy isdescribed in Far from the Madding Crowd as giving hissensational performances of Dick Turpin. Outside the tent a disreputable specimen of ThePelican of the Wilderness is struggling with the ladywho takes the money, to the immense delight of asmall crowd. The lady wishes the bird to sit on thebig drum and make himself agreeable to the people ; 252 A CORNER OF A WESSBX EAIB
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Fun of the Fair the pelican wishes to get inside and dress for his partof the performance. Savage pecks at the ladys skirtsand side-rushes to get round her, however, avail himnothing : clasped by his sinuous neck, he is at lastperched on the drum, but only for a moment or two.The sound of the unrivalled orchestra, consisting ofa fiddle, trombone, and a cornet, within fires him tofresh endeavours, and this time he hops down, and,making an insolent peck at the ladys well-displayedankles, succeeds in escaping within the booth. At the end of the lane of stalls and to the left is ashow such as used to be more frequent in bygonetimes. Outside runs a narrow platform on whichstands a red-faced man alternately thumping a hugedrum and banging a copper disc suspended from a pole,which serves as a clangorous gong. A child is givingillustrations of step-dancing and high kicking, whilsttwo women in tights and brief, heavily spangled skirtspirouette before the gaping crowd. Walk up ! Walk up ! Only

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