Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

96 PETER PARLEY'S
tion, which beat the air and performed their
evolutions with almost incessant rapidity.
Some of them in the form of boats, which
in the course of their movements rose and
sunk alternately so as to imitate the motion
of a vessel on the water,
ingenious and appeared
seemed particularly
to be in constant
request.
Donkey races, too,
lent their attractions,
and altogether such a scene of gaiety
Peter Parley never witnessed.
" As long as daylight lasted these out-ofdoor
amusements seemed to lose little or
none of their attractions. When it became
too dark for their performance people crowded
into the theatres and tents, or waited patiently
for the grand display of fire-works