text:  You must have seen a tall platform in front of the migratory edifice and on that platform you must have delighted your visual orb with the clown the pantaloon the harlequin the dancing ladies the walking dandy the king with his crown the queen in her rabbit-skin robes the smock-frocked countryman the top-booted jockey and all the _dramatis personae_ of the performance that every moment of every day during every fair is for ever "going to begin