The beautiful female horse-rider stands upon the wooden balcony and cracks with her whip, whilst Harlequin blows the trumpet.

Fastened to a perch, large, gay parrots nod over the heads of the multitude.

Here stands a miner in his black costume, and exhibits the interior of a mine.

He turns his box, and during the music dolls ascend and descend.

Another shows the splendid fortress of Frederiksteen: "The whole cavalry and infantry who have endured an unspeakable deal; here a man without a weapon, there a weapon without a man; here a fellow without a bayonet, here a bayonet without a fellow; and yet they are merry and contented, for they have conquered the victory." [Note: Literal translation of the real words of a showman.] Dutch wafer-cake booths, where the handsome Dutch women, in their national costume, wait on the customers, entice old and young.
Here a telescope, there a rare Danish ox, and so forth.