[Mayworks-org] for the meeting-place. The smithy on these occasions

[Felicano Chouteau]

N the daytime the wagons and tents presented a dreary appearance, sunk
in snow, the dogs shivering between the wheels, and but little other
sign of life visible. When dusk came the lights were lit, and the
drummer and fifer from the booth of tumblers were sent into the town to
entice an audience. They marched quickly through the nipping, windy
streets, and then returned with two or three score of men, women, and
children, plunging through the snow or mud at their heavy heels. It was
Orpheus fallen from his high estate. What a mockery the glare of the
lamps and the capers of the mountebanks were, and how satisfied were we
to enjoy it all without going inside. I hear the "Waterloo veterans"
still, and remember their patriotic outbursts: On the sixteenth day of
June, brave boys, while cannon loud did roar, We being short of cavalry
they pressed on us full sore; But British steel soon made them yield,
though our numbers was but few, And death or victory
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