. St. Nicholas [serial] . This is little Miss Isabel,Who knows her lessons very well;She s always very prompt at school,And pays attention to the rule. JAPANESE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND. BY MARY H. CHAPPELL, OFJAPAN (AGE IO).A FEW. days ago my fa-ther, mother, sister, and Iwent to a party where aprofessional juggler en-tertained us. The first thing he didwas to make a great manygestures and bows whilesome other people beatdrums and played an in-strument to call the spiritsto help him in his work. Taking a piece of paper,he rolled it in his hands,then let go, but it did notfall more than two t
. St. Nicholas [serial] . This is little Miss Isabel,Who knows her lessons very well;She s always very prompt at school,And pays attention to the rule. JAPANESE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND. BY MARY H. CHAPPELL, OFJAPAN (AGE IO).A FEW. days ago my fa-ther, mother, sister, and Iwent to a party where aprofessional juggler en-tertained us. The first thing he didwas to make a great manygestures and bows whilesome other people beatdrums and played an in-strument to call the spiritsto help him in his work. Taking a piece of paper,he rolled it in his hands,then let go, but it did notfall more than two then took the paper,smoothed it out, and setit on fire, rolling the ashesup in a folding fan, whichhe blew at one end ; but in-stead of ashes, square pieces of paper came out. Then hetook a handful of the pieces and threw them over the au-dience, and they became four long, white strings of he had gathered these up he threw them outagain over the crowd, and they became two colored 856 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [July,.
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