They are only anxious to give as many performances as possible before fresh assemblies of spectators in as short a time as may be.

"Boothers" have been known to give even six distinct exhibitions on Saturday nights.

And they certainly resort to undignified expedients to lure their audiences.
They parade in their theatrical attire, dance quadrilles and hornpipes, fight with broadswords, and make speeches on the external platform of their booth.

Histrionic art is seen to little advantage under these conditions, although it should be said that many notable players have commenced the study of their profession among the "boothers." The travelling circus is again a distinct institution, its tumblers and riders only in a very distant and illegitimate way connected with even the humblest branches of the great Thespian family.
But strolling, in its old sense, is fast expiring.

Barns have ceased to be temples of the drama.