is an enlarged rat trap with two sleepy, disgusted overgrown cats in
it--cats which do not thrive well in this cold land, and which do not
smell any too sweet and clean. The pyramid of fine-looking
picture-elephants is an ugly live elephant or two standing on a beer-keg
or two, which is a wonderful feat for elephants, of course, but not an
entertaining one to human sight-seers; and as a final swindle, the
cannon act is a man on a spring disguised as a wooden cannon, who is
thus hoisted a few feet into the air, where he catches hold of his
swinging bar and completes the usual act of an "aerial acrobat." "Fi
on't!" as Hamlet says; "reform it altogether!"