Bihar ki Rajdhani patna
wahan ke hotel me ghat gai ek ghatna
Buddha-buddhi ka ek pair lekar bhaith gae do chair
Baire ko bulwaya,khana mangwaya
Pahle buddhe ne khaya,budiya ne pankha hilaya
Fir budiya ne khaya buddhe ne pankha hilaya
Yah dekh baire ka sir chakraya
Usne farmaya o laila majnu k mai-baap
Itna prem he to khate kiu nahi ek sath
Buddha bola, beta kahna to tera nek hai
Par DANTO KA SET EK HAI

An Indian juggler is known all over the world for his wonderful tricks. He travels about from town to town, showing his tricks for a few coins. He is always welcome, for he pleases us with his clever tricks.

He does his tricks so cleverly and quickly that the eye can hardly follow his movements. He takes a little ball and puts it under a cup. You watch it closely. You have not seen him remove the ball. You are quite sure that the ball is still under the cup. And yet, when he lifts the cup the ball is gone! You are amazed. He has done the trick.

The Indian juggler is very lever at what is known as the `basket trick’. He places on the ground a large, round basket. A young lad gets into it and lies down. The juggler then covers it with a piece of cloth. He then takes a sword and thrusts it into the basket in every possible direction. You hear painful cries of the boy and see the drawn-out sword smeared with blood. You feel frightened, for you think that the poor boy must be bleeding. You feel like cursing the cruel juggler. But he does not see to care, as if nothing strange has happened. After an astonished to find the basket empty and the boy gone! A few minutes later, the same boy appears, as cheerful and happy as ever.

But the cleverest trick of an Indian juggler is what may be called the `ring trick’. It is surprising how the ring disappears. The juggler borrows a ring from a person standing in the crowd. He ties it up tightly in the corner of a handkerchief, and gives it to a gentleman in he crowd to hold. The gentleman can feel the ring in the handkerchief and holds it tightly between his pointing finger and thumb. He then asks the gentleman to let go the ring and shake the handkerchief. The gentleman does so and finds that the ring has disappeared. The juggler then picks up an apple lying on the ground, and asks the gentleman to cut it open; the latter does so and his surprise, Ho! The ring is there!

Such are the wonderful tricks of an Indian juggler.

What a fine time we had on Saturday last! Our school had arranged a magic show by the famous magician, Mr. Prithvi Ra.

The school hall was full. The headmaster and the teachers occupied the front seats while we sat on the benches behind them.

The magician stood on the platform. He wore a long black coat and a tall black hat. He had a magician’s wand in one hand a handkerchief in the other. On the table in front of him were placed some boxes of different colors, a few glasses, a rope, a knife and some other things.

The magician started his first trick. He took two boxes in his hand. One was bigger than the other. He showed both the boxes to the spectators. There was nothing in them. Then he took some small pieces of paper and put them in the smaller box. He put some round pieces of cardboard in the bigger box. He then covered both the boxes with the black cloth and waved his wand over the boxes there times. Then he uncovered the boxes. What did we see? We saw the smaller box full of sweets of different kinds-toffees, biscuits.

Then he performed his famous trick called the `ring trick’. He borrowed a ring from a teacher. He tied it up tightly in the corner f handkerchief, and gave it to the teacher to hold. The teacher could feel the ring in the handkerchief and held it tightly between his finger and thumb. He then asked the teacher to let go the ring and shake the handkerchief. He did so and found that the ring had disappeared. The magician then picked up an apple lying on the ground and asked the teacher to cut it open. He did so and to his surprise found the ring there. We were all highly amazed.

The magician’s last trick was a wonderful one. He just waved his wand and there, in his hand, was a garland of flowers. He walked up to the headmaster and put the garland round his neck. We all clapped heartily. The show had ended.

Now a day’s cirrus shows very rear in our country. This is best entertainment to the children.

What a grand time we had at the circus last night! The circus tent was brightly illuminated with electric lights. There were seats arranged in a huge circle round a big open place where the animals were to show their tricks. A big crowd had assembled there.

Exactly 6 o’ clock the show began. We were full of thrill and excitement.

First came in seven horses. On their backs rode six men dressed in red. Blue and yellow, and a foreign girl dressed in a riding-cloak. The band played a dance tune, and all the horse went round in a circle dancing in tune to the music. Then the riders got up and stood on the backs of the horses. The horse on which the girl rode was now without its rider. She now stood aside directing the tricks to be shown by the horses and the riders. She struck the whip and the horses galloped in a circle, the riders standing on their backs. She cracked the whip again and now the riders were jumping from one horse to another and turning somersaults in the air, touching the ground with their feet and coming into position again by catching the tails of the horses, it was indeed very wonderful. We cheered and cheered till we could cheer no more.

Then the elephants were brought in. they performed very funny tricks. One by one they crossed a narrow bridge. They stood upon their hind legs and danced. They stood in a row; one balancing his forelegs on the back of the next in front of him.

Next there came three very clowns with painted faces. One was dressed like a monkey; the other was dressed like a lion, and the bird like a village girl. We little we little children thought at first that these were animals that could both speak and walk. They made us roar with laughter funny antics.

But the most wonderful part was to see the tame lions. It was really a splendid thing to see them do certain things unimaginable in actual life. There stood the lion- tamer, with a strong whip in his hand. There were three lions which were made to stand in a row, and a goat was made to jump from the back of one lion on to another. Then they brought in cow, and the lions were made to jump over its back. It was really very surprised to see all this.

Then there were athletes who held us spell –bound with their gymnastic feats. They climbed to the roof of the tent be means of a rope ladder and there walked and ran on a rope hung between tow poles and holding the stretched out rope with their feet took many a somersault. At one time I thought that I had one to sleep and was dreaming.

We had a very exciting time, and retuned home, full of strange and varied experiences.