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Show Blackio and the Magician. Many years ago "the Wizard of the North" gave some performances in Edinburgh, Ed-inburgh, and Professor Blackie was one of the crowd who went to see them. Afl he was making his way in he felt something some-thing at his coattail, and putting hia band into his pocket he found an egg. This he took out nd most adroitly transferred it to the pocket of a young man just in front of him, a person as nnlike himself as can well be imagined. Arrived in the hall, he remarked where this young man placed himself and chose his own seat in a corner as remote as possible. When the time camo for "Wizard" Anderson to "troublo" him for tho egg, ho arose and explained thai he had nothing of the sort in his pocket but that he believed "that gentleman" could produce it, pointing to the astonished aston-ished young man, whoso surprise, however, how-ever, by no moans equalod that of thf Wizard. M. A in T..nndan Nowt |