The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 319
rformance of this dog was not^to be equalled. 248 SPORTS AND PASTIMES BOOK III. I mistake not, in several other places in and about the metro-polis. Neither is this whimsical spectacle a recent invention.A hare that beat the tabor is mentioned by Jonson, in his comedyof Bartholmew Fayre, acted at… … 82. Hare and Tabor. And here I cannot help mentioning a very ridiculous show ofa learned pig, which of late days attracted much of the publicnotice, and at the polite end of the town. This pig, which in-deed was a large unwieldy hog, being taught to pick up letterswritten upon pieces of cards, and…
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