Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    silver plate, while towards the front were shops of artificers and jewellers all at work, with anvils, hammers, and instruments for enamelling and beating out gold and silver. On a step below St. Dunstan, sat an assay master with his trial balance and implements, and next to him two apartments showing the process of flatting and drawing gold and silver wire. Indeed it was a very brave show, and attracted crowds of the burghers, so that the road was nigh impassable. “ Look, Dulcie, at the man on the rope,” cried Karl, as they made their way to the other side of the market-place There on a stout rope, which was stretched from the bell tower of the Frauen Kirche, and fastened by a great anchor to the ground, was a man, his head forward, casting his arms and legs about, and running on his breast on the rope, from the tower to the ground, like an arrow shot from a bow. Then he would crawl up again, until nearly at the top, and there play certain mysteries, such as tumbling and hanging by one foot, which mightily pleased those who were look- ing on.