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THE FIRE-WATCHMAN OF CHRISTIANIA.
11
and in the mock railway cars, enjoying their halfpenny
ride with all the simple happiness of little children.
There are also a camera obscura, several peep-shows,
and a theatre of some magnitude, in which a
company of English acrobats—" Professor " Milner and his
infant sons (all fall grown)—go through the usual
performances; the father playing at football with his
sons, walking about with a quantity of them on his
head, and standing in the attitude of Ajax defying
the lightning, while they make trussed fowls and
"spread-eagles" of themselves, in flat controversion of
all that anatomists have written and demonstrated
concerning the structure and functions of the
liip-joint and its ligaments. These are followed by the
performances of the Chinese knife-thrower and
straw-balancer, who astonished the Londoners some few
years before. He is now accompanied by a fire-eating
brother. At the conclusion of the Chinese performances,
two English dancers appear. Their chief effort is the
" Highland fling," which evidently enjoys the same
popularity here as at the Surrey Theatre and Grecian
Saloon. The price of admission to the gardens is
G skillings (pronounced shillings). The extra charge
for the theatre is, front seats 36 skillings, second class
24 skillings, back standing-places 12 skillings. The
mysteries of the camera obscura and peep-shows—
cosmoramic views, in politer English—like the delights
of the merry-go-round, are purchasable by a special
extra payment. There are convoluted walks about the
gardens, with seats and tables for refreshments, after
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