The children whined as he insisted that he would have an ale or two.
Hans grinned and made flame hop up on his hands. One child noticed him, and was still. He sent it into the air, and sent other flames after it.
Minutes later, he had a small crowd of children, a handful of coins in a hat, and more people coming to stare.
He twisted the highest flame into a bird. Well, a vague semblance of a bird. But it was within the common run of things for entertainers at the fair, and more coins were thrown in.