Done While Dancing.
A recently-returned visitor to India gave the following account of a remarkable piece of street conjuring which he witnessed in Madras. " I saw fcome very clever juggling performances," he said ; "but one day, while riding through an inland village, I came across a bit of ledgerdemain that btruck me as rather novel. " The juggler was a lean, lantern-jawed native in a fantastic gown. He was accompanied by an old, withered man carrying a drum. The performance commenced by the younger native handing round a supra (a bamboo tray) on which the spectator*, were invited to place rice or grain. " A few handfuls of each of these commodities having been placed on the tray, the juggler proceeded to mix them up in such a way that it would have taken hours to separate them by the ordinary method. " Then to the measured beating of the drum, th'J native with the tray began to whirl round like a teetotum, without, however, spilling a single grain of the content!* oi the tray, which
hfi held aloft. Faster and faster the drum beat, and faster grew the gyrations of -the conjurer till it made me giddy to look at him. "Gradually the pace slackened, and the dancer, coming to a stop, exhibited the tray, upon which the grain and rice had, by some means, bocome separated into two little heaps at different ends."
Done While Dancing.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 62
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