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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 534, 29 July 1865, Page 5

Golden* Eggs. —Herr Herrman, having worked out tho golden mine of Constantinople, left for Smyrna en route for Egypt and India, with his budget of conquered wonders. The day before leaving however, he performed an al fresco trick, which, though trilling in itself, is amusing enough in its result to mention. Returning in company with a iiiend from the oa/,aars, he met a Jew egg-hawker near the Stambjul end of the bridge, and, stopping him, asked him the price of his eggs. "Thirty parahs a piece/' said the Jew, "for they were all fresh laid tills morning/' " r ery good," said Herrmann, 4 4 I'll take a dozen at the price/' The nine piastres were accordingly paid, and the conjuror then proceeded to crack one of the eggs. The result did not bear out the Jew's averment as to their freshness; but Herrmann, nothing daunted by the smell, slowly chipped ofl the top of the shell and fished out a sovereign from the centre of the odorous yolk. To tho amazement of the Jew he did the same with a second and a third which both proved as rotten as the first ---and was taking up a fourth, when Moses flung back the nine piastres, shouldered his creel, and scuttled rapidly off, declaring that he would not sell at that price. Herrmann and his companion slowly followed, and after a little while camo up with the Hebrew, in a quiet corner of tho neighbouring mosque-yard, where thoy^found him hard at work breaking his Another oiur was made for tho whole, but, althoTigh moic than a dozen had already been sacrificed without tho expected sovereigns turning up, tho Youdai refused business, and was left deliberately smashing the whole contents of tho basket in search of tho golden deposit.—-levant Herald.