Usually, the comic dialogues, performing bears, conjuring, clapper ballads, acrobatics, folk-songs and stories told to the accompaniment of drums could all give him genuine pleasure and make him open his big mouth in a smile.

• 平日，这里的说相声的，耍狗熊的，变戏法的，数来宝的，唱秧歌的，说鼓书的，练把式的，都能供给他一些真的快乐，使他张开大嘴去笑。