Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-06
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become strong enough to bear fruit, the bios som to appear, the fruit to form and finally the fruit to ripen, which is then piucked of and given to be eaten.
 Now we, for our part, cannot understand how any one can not see through the per- iormance Nay, even when to fellow spec tator, who once viewed this performances we explained the detaileof the trick after it was over, he would not believe but recokned the affair wonderful, and even partaking of the supernatural. We can only attribute it to his having been so mystiied as to have been &C., tually mesmerized, though partaking of con- sc1ousness. The real truth about this feat was that the green and ripe fruits, and every branch and shoot that was exhibited were actually there, just as much as the seed and the fower-pot in the wraps and folds and baskets which formed the covering We've carefully watching the mans proceedings, and at that time had acquired some knowledge of juggling tricks As we were not allowed to touch the instruments of the exhibition after the particular performance began the baskets wraps, etc. could not be disturbed; but with our own eyes we saw the performer draw out the branches, etc., from the folds of the cloths and noticed him sticking them into the pot beneath the coversng, working away with his hands, and, as we thought, very clumsily.
 The question may be asked by doubter of our account of the process, how about green and ripe fruit, as well as blossoms, being pro- ducfd simultaneously, say at period when there are no such things; that is, when they are out of season? This, indeed, has been brought forward a complete answer by those who believe in these juggIers. To answer this is not so difficult however as it appears. India is vast continent and from it's southernmost limit on the Indian ocean, where there is little difference between sum- mer and winter, to it's northern boundary on the snowy Himalayas there is existing every variety of climate at any given time of the year. The mango forishes equally in Ceylon and in the sub-Himalayan countries. We have ourselves, in passing through the plains into the upper Himalayas, in the course of successive weeks, seen the mango season just over the plains; a little higher up mangoes were just in season; the fruits forming higher up still; the blossoms in fuli flush a couple of thousand feet higher; while higher still the blossoms had not yet made an appearence. With this fact to be taken two others; the first, the Indian jugglers all belong to one masonic brotherhood, and in intimate communication with one another, all ever on the move; and the second, that even they will decline at times to perform this particular feat; that is, when they are not provided with the blossoms, green and ripe fruits, The seeds, shoots etc., are always everywhere procurable.
 If there still be any doubter, let us only add that after the performance detailed above we took the man aside Unwilling naturally to expose the man, and destroy the credit by means of which he had made his living) and asked him if it was not true that the branches and frnits were all there in the wraps. The glance of our eye told him that we knew every detail in the process, and had watched everything that he did, and so he confessed that what we said was the truth, and apologized by saying that he must make a living.