FAKIR'S DINNER BILL.
" FRIEND" WHO VANISHED. Tahra Boy, the fakir, whose feats created a sensation in Paris a little time "ago, recently accepted, an invitation from an elegant acquaintance who desired him to bo his guest for the evening. His new friend offered him JoSster and duck, and champagne galore, telling the fakir that he would pay the bill. At daybreak, however, the elegant friend disappeared, and the fakir wa3 presented with a bill for 475 francs (nominally £l9). He protested that he had been invited, but in spite of his protest the employees of the cafe threw him out of the place. The fakir then commenced -a suit for 250,000 francs damages. The proprietor of the place defended the suit on theground that " when one is a fakir one is insensible to physical pain." At each of his performances the fakir lay on a plank studded with nails, arid allowed an athlete to Weak a 2001b stone on his chest. " Why, then, should he complain of a few blows with the fist ?" To this the fakir replied: "It is true lam insensible to pain when in a cataleptic state, but I feel pain like anyone else when I am in a normal condition."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19376, 10 July 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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204FAKIR'S DINNER BILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19376, 10 July 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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