the performance, ``when there is a sufficient
company.''

In 1820 a Mr. Cassillis toured England with
a juvenile company, one of the features of
which was Miss Cassillis, aged nine years,
whose act was a complete reproduction of the
programme of Boaz, concluding her performance
with the ``Chinese Fire Trick.''

A Negro, Carlo Alberto, appeared in a benefit
performance given by Herr Julian, who
styled himself the ``Wizard of the South,'' in
London, on November 28th, 1843. Alberto was
billed as the ``Great African Wonder, the Fire
King'' and it was promised that he would ``go
through part of his wonderful performance as
given by him in the principal theaters in
America, in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
etc.''

A later number on the same bill reads: ``The
African Wonder, Carlo Alberto, will sing several
new and popular Negro melodies.'' Collectors
of minstrel data please take notice!

In more recent times there have been a number
of Negro fire-eaters, but none seems to
have risen to noticeable prominence.