What do they not do? They go out shopping—and is there anything so delightful as to shop always in strange towns? They prepare their play-bills and announce their sad-vent. The mere business of acting is only an incident in this varied life.
It is not, of course, necessary to advertise much. Their coming is quickly known, iand a few placards which set forth that "this evening on the canal" such and such a comedy will be given—such as "Lo Gamtn de Paris"—are sufficient to bring the countryside flocking to the gangways.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.