him for the chapel to preach in. He said he had a school house
which would ^hold^ 500 and that I might have that on Sunday. So
I gave out an appointment at Bowl Court 137 Thornditch. I
conversed with several others who received my testimony
and one woman said she would be baptized

I returned home by the way of Smithfield
market which covers about 20 acres of ground. It was
Fair time and I never saw such a sight before. There
were 20 acres of ground covered with cattle sheep and
caravans of beast of every name and large bands of music
belonging to these "Shows" were playing to call the people
to the exhibitions of the numerous manageries which had
gathered from all parts of the country to the Smithfield
Market Fair. The^re^ was also a conglomeration of everything
there. I thought, "Could a Missourian from the western
wiles of America whose Knowledge extended only to his
gun, corn, crib and hog-pen behold such a shight he
would think himself in another world and perhaps retire
heart-sickened with the scene as I did; and no man who
loved virtue peace and retirement could feel otherwise in
viewing a scene like the Smith field Market Fair. Yet
Fairs are yearly heald in every part of the nation and in
fact they form one of the venerable institutions of the
land. They are some of the "good old English relics" and
are strikingly pictorial of "Merry England" of olden times
^English^ Fairs are more plebian and belong more exclusively to the
peasantry and lower classes them English "Races". The latter
through just as much a national institution of the peasantry
and masses of England as the former also is a national institution
with the higher classes. The English Race course is not only
crowded with the tens of thousands of plebian stock but the
crowds of nobility fashionable society and sportsman from
all the country around will be there gathered on race days
But English Fairs and English Races from a moral point of
view are about on a level and there are none of the old
national institutions of that country so illustrative of the
type of "Merry England" in olden times. They are in
fact pictorial to the last shade of colouring when viewed

him for the chapel to preach in. He said he had a school house which would hold 500 and that I might have that on Sunday. So I gave out an appointment at Bowl Court 137 Thornditch. I conversed with several others who received my testimony and one woman said she would be baptized

I returned home by the way of Smithfield's market which covers about 20 acres of ground. It was Fair time and I never saw such a sight before. There were 20 acres of ground covered with cattle sheep and caravans of beast of every name and large bands of music belonging to these "Shows" were playing to call the people to the exhibitions of the numerous manageries which had gathered from all parts of the country to the Smith field Market Fair. There was also a conglomeration of everything there. I thought, "Could a Missourian from the western wiles of America whose Knowledge estended only to his gun, corn, crib and hog-pen behold such a shight he would think himself in another world and perhaps retire heart-sickened with the sense as I did; and no man who loved virtue peace and retirement could feel otherwise in viewing a scene like the Smith field Market Fair. Yet Fairs are yearly held in every part of the nation and in fact they form one of the venerable institutions of the land. They are some of the "good old English relics" and are strikingly pictorial of "Merry England" of olden times English Fairs are more plebian and belong more exclusively to the peasantry and lower classes them English "Races." The latter through just as much a national institution of the peasantry and masses of England as the former also is a national institution with the higher classes. The English Race course is not only crowded with the tens of thousands of plebian fully folk but crowds of mobility fashionable society and sportsman from all the country around will be there gathered on race days But English Fairs and English Races take from a moral point of view are about on a level and there are none of the old national institutions of that country so illustrative of the type of "Merry England" in olden times. They are in fact pictorial to the last shade of colouring when viewed