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In justice to those gentlemen, we must say that the arrangements made
for the accommodation of the public were admirable, while they were
carried out with the very greatest success. The booths were arranged
in a square form, and covered a space of ground about 1,400 feet long
and about 1,000 feet broad.

"They were arranged in regular rows, ample space being allowed
between them for the free passage of the people; and they consisted
of every variety of shape, while they were decked with flags of all
colours and nations. One portion of the fair was set apart
exclusively for ginger-bread and fancy booths, while those rows by
which these were surrounded were appropriated to the use of showmen,
and of persons who dealt in the more substantial articles of
refreshment. Of the latter description, however, the readers would
recognize many as regular frequenters of such scenes; but, probably,
the booth which attracted the greatest attention, from its magnitude,
was that erected by Williams, the celebrated boiled beef monger of
the Old Bailey. This was pitched in the broadest part of the fair,
and immediately adjoining Richardson's show; and, at the top of it
was erected a gallery for the use of those who were desirous of
witnessing the fireworks in the evening, and, to which, access was to
be procured by payment of a small sum.

"While this person, and the no less celebrated Alger, the proprietor
of the Crown and Anchor, were astonishing the visitors with the
enormous extent of the accommodation which they could afford the
public, others set up claims of a character more agreeable to the age
in the exceedingly tasty mode in which they had decorated their
temporary houses. Of these, that which struck us as most to be
admired, was a tent erected by a person named Bull, of Hackney, the
interior of which, decorated with fluted pillars of glazed calico,
had a really beautiful appearance. It would be useless, however, to
attempt to particularize every booth, for each held out its alluring
attractions to the gaping crowd with equal force, and each appeared
to be sufficiently patronized by the friends of its proprietor.

"Not a few, in addition to the solid attractions of eating and
drinking, held out those of a more 'airy' description, and, in many,
it was announced that a 'grand ball