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At these multi-weekend events, artisans sold jewelry, candles and clothing; musicians played lutes and flutes; and fire-eaters, jugglers, acrobats and jousters performed feats of medieval derring-do.

You pass a fire-eater elevated on a striped platform.

As before there are chapter-length portraits of key players: the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, the South Carolina fire-eater who caned him, and Thaddeus Stevens, radical Republican and implacable foe of slavery.

The fire-eater, amused, yelled at Salvador to catch his little brother before he ran south all the way to Mexico City.

The theatre said the fire-eater was able to walk out of the building to the ambulance.