Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-04-04

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The shooting party had gone away
and left; eigks-xesrro!d Freddie behind
toIhis great Idisgnst. I'LL was Just about
sunrise, the coolest, incest time O day
in India, and his mother was not yet
gup, andthe servants were busy else
where, SO there was nobody to ospre,
vent him from wandering to the
boundary OF the tea plantation. There
ho observed of n sddden'a a quite unex-
peeted and amazing sight.
Two brown men, one quite old and
the othec quite young, were in the
shadow OF the trees. They were
stripped to the waist, and the old man
woresa cummesbund and sandals, while
the young, wity mans legs and feet
NMe bare. The old man ~ as avid cut
ggpshuctisg the younseE and ssu per
yi&nga lessonfar more in terest ing gsfo
dslie tha1AAe worrying intricacies
of the rea1ing book and multiplication
table. Fish, flash! Flickerty, flick!
Up in the mir, glancing in themorning's
slanting suabeams, quirerea prodi-
gious number of knives. They must
sometimes have touched the sjuggler's
hapas 6nE deity did the man fin
eeg them that tdhe Eniyes darted a asout
Ids head and STbodyEke swarm of
Z great dragon flies, grazing his ears,
! soaring above his turban, swooping to
his knees, but never by any accident
touching the grouad Rnti, with. o.
swift chatter and q clash, they all came
together in the ,juggler's grasp, and
he laid them down.
Now, the little boys eyyes and mouth
were soon very. wide open. indeed, and
when the feat was over, his uncon-
scious legs had borne him, step by
step, right up to the jugglsrs, where
his brown hair and pale face and
pretty sdit Of snow-white duck CON
trasted strangely with their euskS'
skins and bright black eyes and cloths
I of glowing colors. he was immensely
interested and her an eti, but lSy mo-
! means lTirassi1f Z, for lie haais been Born
in India and WAS accustomed to COM
mune in q lordly manner with alt SORTS,
Of natives. Even travel lhg iuggiers
were nos:unknown to lsa So when:
the swartliy men salaai ned hdmbl to-
1 the little:ssLfb, tho boy aelsnowladiS god
their salute and SAID with the simple
direetness CT. one :isssd. .,:tok .beitigJ
oteyed s;s.sst - e.. g ?ts''
e.Do # agaid.'g 1. ..,. -: 'ss..', e.,.... :,
Z The older man turned to the boy at
once with an air OF having expected
him, and dsssmled end saiaamed very
lov!u quite a graft fed way :. They
. obey.d hfm at once, and the young
natiy. began to perform even more,
.arnusil g tricks. twas almost. terri
Tying, blt The curious and rather. .un-.
nerviug thing was that the OH juggler
: never seemed to take his eyes off the
boy. Thefeld man gave Him a mat to,
Sit Z s ;itson,. and. Smiled into HIS face with
great piercing eyes, and. told him to
be good and he would see what he
would see. The old man then took a
mango stona. from a. basket, and care
,fu..iiy plantedit. Then he covered the.
Spot for an .Ynstaht with the basket,
and there was the young plant already
spfoufihg from tile earth. freddie;
gsspsd and thsplsut grewan grew
right before hiseyes., Itt grew and it
grew and isgsew, datif ina very short
time it was tree. Then it spread
and it spread, and had many branches
and leaves, and at last little mangoessl
began to appear, and they grew and
ripened in a marvellous way, Iptifthe
fakir plucked big iuicy one aud gave
it to the boy, who ate it and fonnd it
delicious. Then the juggler erEwared
his hands and-the tree was gone.
.'Goosnsss mer,. r,.eried Freddie, q
don,taeo howathat Ewas done. ss.a,;5
The Old jugglers smiled again and
took a. Coil of'rope from the wonderful
basket. 1t was very ordinary rope,
Just, in fact, a wash line, But the
fakir threw one end of the coil far up,i
and the marvelling boy saw that the
rope spun slowly ont, up and up tow
ard the sky, quite straight as if some
!. one were. .hauling Mt the upper end.
It went up and up until the end van
ished ltogether q Ca s /.
"a SSrscious goody l,ss cried Freddie.
9ss dom See how that was sdone!'.f e s'% I I
Y The old man clapped his hands,
and the young man leaped at the rope
\ at once and seized it and began to
Climb mp, hand over hand, ata tre-
Emendous rate, and he went up. and up
3 and up Until he dlso@assoatsof sight.
~ sI never, never did!" cried Freddie,
!. who was now limp with amazement.
Z sssThere did helgeNo?9 u Il n
aWherever he wished to CO." the
iuegier said. "Does the sahib wish to
q 90 sanywhere?" 0asS2ia-s
sYes,' cried Freddie with sudden
happy thought. "Where my papa
sand uncle are hunting"
IS In q moment fhe iuggler placed the
4 repesin his handss, SO
IS; Climb, . said land without TAX ]
ine time to thiak Freddie climbed.
J1A how and sswhen it happened
! n lie let go Of the rope he could not
tsiE but without any trouble to him
ssclf slie suddenly found that the rope
! aad disappeared, md he was standing
{ I'm q great compound beside Ia river.
Blythe river baaks were great stacks
I, ,pf flnnber, anGaa small army of ele-
chants, each in charge Of mahont
RHO, perched onethe lbfute's neck, was
9 picking upshhgeE logs and carrying
them, accorfling to their length aud
i sickness, TO othe. stasksr, here, the
,ei,tants pilsa them .s,siti alness hue
mar. .intei iiiseuse and exactnssss Ersd.
die remembered thiss soyesnras sns docks