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| source details = No. 307, July 12, 1878, p. 14
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Mr. E. Stanley Robertson, late of the Bengal Civil Service, contributes to the capitally-conducted ''University'' ''Magazine ''(Hurst and Blackett) an interesting article with the above heading. He says:—
“Early in January, 1877, I was stationed at Moradabad, in Rohilkund. My wife was in England invalided, so instead of living alone, I had adopted a common and convenient Indian fashion and was ‘chumming’ with a friend. My chum was Mr. Carmichael-Smyth, acting Superintendent of Police for the district. One day Mr. Smyth told me that he expected to receive a visit from a native, an amateur conjuror, who would perform some amusing tricks. It so happened that on the same day we were waited on by a Parsee pedlar, who wanted to sell us ivory and sandal wood carvings, and such like knick-knacks, which are the usual stock-in-trade of the Parsee travelling merchants. While we were chaffering with this man the conjuror was announced, and was shown into the common sitting-room. He was followed by a crowd of our servants—for the native of every rank loves a conjuror, and gazes on a conjuring performance with the simple admiration of a child.
“There was nothing very remarkable in the appearance or dress of our conjuror. An elderly man, short and sparely made, dressed in dingy white cotton, with very tight sleeves to his robe and very tight legs to his drawers; he might have been a respectable servant out of place, but actually was a small landowner, who had taken to conjuring for his amusement.
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