Oh, do look at this picture in my Scrap-Book—such fun! It is market-day, and all the showmen have arrived. All sorts of wonderful sights are to be seen inside if you will but walk in. "A fat woman!" "a learned pig!" and "a giant with a tail!" And if you could only hear the music, it would nearly make you deaf. Bang, bang, bang, goes the drum at both ends. He must be a great musician, for he is playing on another instrument at the same time.
PREPARING FOR BATTLE.
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Such a gathering of canoes! It must be a great battle that is going to take place! All the fight-ing-men are ready with their bows and spears; while their chiefs are standing up in each canoe, telling them how they are to fight. No doubt the enemy is making ready too; and they will indeed require to be careful, for here is the king himself, in the largest canoe, sitting on a chair of state. He is a very big man, and has his club ready.