![]() ![]() ![]() Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. Yes, this is VANITY FAIR not a moral place certainly nor a merry one, though very noisy. ![]() There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. ![]() You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!Īs the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]()
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