Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . \ery much likeh i m, duringthat rural car-nival undercover, theWorlds that all, oreven most,show people are gipsies or of gipsy that be made perfectly clear. Still, anumber of the van dwellers who congregateat Islington realise one of the finest char-acters immortalised by George Borrow. The Worlds Fair is the great event inthe showmens year. As Christmas drawsnigh van dwellers come to town from eastand west, north and south, and pitch their. RKADV KOK SWEETS. tents at Islingt
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . \ery much likeh i m, duringthat rural car-nival undercover, theWorlds that all, oreven most,show people are gipsies or of gipsy that be made perfectly clear. Still, anumber of the van dwellers who congregateat Islington realise one of the finest char-acters immortalised by George Borrow. The Worlds Fair is the great event inthe showmens year. As Christmas drawsnigh van dwellers come to town from eastand west, north and south, and pitch their. RKADV KOK SWEETS. tents at Islington. In the yard of theAgricultural Hall their movable dwellings,a few of them exceptionally commodiousand well furnished—low, ornate livingwaggons, ha\ing about double the cubicspace of an ordinary caravan—are massedtogether, and life runs its course much asin other encampments. Though the ownersof some betake to fixed housesfor the season, there are the usual scenesin the little colon}-, for all the world as ifit were situated in the backwoods of Eng-land. Children play about the livingwaggons; out of business hours olive-skinned,black - haired men lounge against ; and at meal times the air isladen with savoury odours from sizzlingfrying-pans or .seething pots perched ontop of braziers that stand near the stepsof some of the homes on wheels. Even inLondon in mid-winter the open air has noterrors for most of the show folk. Close by is another feature of the fairground, though this is private—the clownsdre.;sing room. A
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