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Show Blackio and tho 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. As he was making his way in he felt something some-thing at his coattail, and putting his fannd into his pocket he found an egg. This he took out and most adroitly transferred it to the pockot of a young man just in front ot him, a person as unlike himself as can well be imagined. Arrived in the hall, ho remarked where ibis young man placed himself and chose his own seat in a corner as remote as possible. When the time came foi "Wizard" Anderson to "trouble" 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 tho astonished aston-ished young man, whose surpriso, however, how-ever, by no means equaled that of tbp Wizard. M. A. in London Now |