| Show NOT OR tor t SALE that appeared to lie too valuable to part with A well known magician is a wag and finds amusement in mystifying simpleminded simple minded folks A correspondent of the transcript writing from washington where the bleight of hand man had been exhibiting his skill tells of his success in astonishing a group of colored people the magician one morning went down to the market washington lias one of the largest and finest market houses in the world and one of its most picturesque features is the row of comfortable negro cammies mammies with baskets of eggs and vegetables sitting outside the building laughing chatting and smoking the sleight of hand expert who had a friend with him sauntered up to one inky black old market woman with a pipe in her mouth and a beautiful array of fresh eggs before her he looked at them and asked the price twenty thice cents honey answered mammy an dese heah is fust rate eggs de hen ain hardly done cl ober cm yit I 1 should think so said he and as he picked up one and cracked it out came a quarter jaw dropped and the pipe with it and this one and this one seems pretty good carelessly remarked the man cracking two more out of which fifty cent pieces tumbled lie cracked half a dozen in all and mammas store of silver was increased every time As he walked off followed by a dozen pairs of beady black eyes nothing but the whites showing somebody came up and ashod the avye stricken old woman the price of her eggs 1 dese aggs ain sale she answered and she gathered them up in her apron and waddled off in the direction of home |
