This exhibition took place in the com pound or back yard of the bungalow of Colonel Rushmere. This yard was about two hundred feet square, and contained only two trees. These were wild fig trees, each about twenty feet high, and they stood at least seventy feet apart. There were present thirty officers and twenty women. This number included the Colonel and his wife. The hour was five o'clock in the afternoon, and chairs were provided for such as desired to sit during the performance. Captain Saunders had had a hint that he would be ex pected to treat the old juggler with deference, but the exhibition had not yet begun when he freely expressed his opinion about frauds and fakirs, and boasted that the fellow would have a hard time trying to humbug him. We saw that Fitz resented his talk, and for a moment seemed to be upon the point of walk ing away. The Colonel spoke in excuse for the captain.and while the juggler was temporarily placated there were those who whispered to each other—" Fresh Fish has got the old man down on him, and had better look out for tricks." The first trick was the old one with THE BASKET AND BOY,

which can be witnessed any day in India. The juggler stood inside the circle with a large basket in his hand, and shouted some words of command. A boy 10 years of age slipped down one of the big trees and ran up to him. everyone of us had carefully looked into those trees haJf a dozen times before.but had caught no sight of the boy. He sank down upon the hard beaten earth, the basket was crowded over him, and after about thirty seconds the old man began thrusting a long, sharp knife through and through the cover ing. Some of the women screamed out, and besought Colonel Rushmere to stop the horrid work, but a few Beconds later the basket was lifted, and lo! the boy had dis appeared. There was no hole in the earth no blood stains —no corpse. We were murmuring our astonishment when the lad appeared on the , rear fence, 200 feet away. He stood for a moment and waved his-hand and then disappeared. 