human
Produce a detailed written description of a festive scene outside a town fairground with road, merchants, anvils, and stumps.
assistant
The shouts of the roaring crowd from within the viewing stands to the south competes with the noise of the ringing anvils to the north. Over all of the din, merchants call out sales to passersby on the road whose uttered curses in return bemoan ankle-deep mud and horse dung. On either side of the way, freshly cut tree stumps are splashed with royal blue paint, some bearing detailed golden serpents.