No one interrupts their noisy garrulity, but the entire assemblage listens eagerly, hailing their clumsy attempts at a joke and their coarse sallies of wit with shrieks of laughter.

Their jests are necessarily of the coarsest; nevertheless excellent local hits are made and satiric personalities of considerable pungency are not infrequently indulged in.

One of the clowns has tumbled down; he lies on his back, feet in the air; another takes hold of his legs and drags him around in the dust.

The peals of laughter that greet this effort give testimony to the estimation in which it is held by the lookers-on.

If one of the spectators has the misfortune to display immoderate enthusiasm, forthwith he is made the target of merciless jeering.