Although dealers were already busy yesterday,.which is the correct day, according to custom for business to be again permissible, a few groups of open air entertainers still endeavoured to work up enthusiasm in their haunts along Avenue Edward VII. They had been there ever since the start the festivities, but only the most hardened of the crowd were now to be seen. Small wonder, too, that a day or two should weary the crowd of their mummery, for they have failed to progress with the times and there was never much their programme which deserved 0 be honoured. Lusty vagabonds they appear for the greater part, eking out the most slender of repertoires with much hoarse or screeching oratory. For instance, before the man with the sword would condescend to get on with his tricks, he argued enough to thoke several peace conferences. And then what he did was simple: he lowered the hilt of the sword to the ground, rested the point in the pit of his stomach, and while he bent double his fellow mummer mounted upon his back. Tt seems a very long time since this trick really deceived. and obviously it must have little merit, else it could be performed with only half as much talking. That is the trouble with {these performing hucksters they never appear to reach a climax in any of their tricks, but pass it by in a spasm of language.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.