Bites Red-Hot Pokers.
HE Indian fakir tricks are the hobby of Mr. Bert Simmons, of Sea-Street, Herne Bay, Kent. He is a fifty-year-old greengrocer who has never been out of Britain. He dances on redhot iron bars, puts red-hot pokers into his mouth, and sticks pins into bis body. Air. Simmons gave a performance of his' feats to a newspaper representative in his parlour behind the shop and said: “I started doing this when I was thirteen. I had read about natives walking over fire biicks at school. It’s quite easy. I feel no pain. I put it down to muscrlar control.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 62, 18 March 1935, Page 4
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