The ugly , grinning , aping , chattering , ill-natured , mischievous and queer little brutes ! Annie does not love the monkeys ; their ugliness shocks her pure , instinctive delicacy of taste and makes her mind unquiet because it bears a wild and dark resemblance to humanity . But here is a little pony just big enough for Annie to ride , and round and round he gallops in a circle , keeping time with his trampling hoofs to a band of music . And here , with a laced coat and a cocked hat , and a riding-whip in his hand -- here comes a little gentleman small enough to be king of the fairies and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes , and takes a flying leap into the saddle . Merrily , merrily plays the music , and merrily gallops the pony , and merrily rides the little old gentleman . -- Come , Annie , into the street again ; perchance we may see monkeys on horseback there . Mercy on us ! What a noisy world we quiet people live in ! Did Annie ever read the cries of London city ? With what lusty lungs doth yonder man proclaim that his wheelbarrow is full of lobsters ! Here comes another , mounted on a cart and blowing a hoarse and dreadful blast from a tin horn , as much as to say , `` Fresh fish ! '' And hark ! a voice on high , like that of a muezzin from the summit of a mosque , announcing that some chimney-sweeper has emerged from smoke and soot and darksome caverns into the upper air . What cares the world for that ? But , well-a-day , we hear a shrill voice of affliction -- the scream of a little child , rising louder with every repetition of that smart , sharp , slapping sound produced by an open hand on tender flesh . Annie sympathizes , though without experience of such direful woe . Lo ! the town-crier again , with some new secret for the public ear . Will he tell us of an auction , or of a lost pocket-book or a show of beautiful wax figures , or of some monstrous beast more horrible than any in the caravan ? I guess the latter .
See how he uplifts the bell in his right hand and shakes it slowly at first , then with a hurried motion , till the clapper seems to strike both sides at once , and the sounds are scattered forth XXXXX quick succession far and near .
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