[The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories CHAPTER 10 20/27
Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting.
As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage." We were traveling at the time and stopped at a little city in India and looked on while a juggler did his tricks before a group of natives.
They were wonderful, but I knew Satan could beat that game, and I begged him to show off a little, and he said he would.
He changed himself into a native in turban and breech-cloth, and very considerately conferred on me a temporary knowledge of the language. The juggler exhibited a seed, covered it with earth in a small flower-pot, then put a rag over the pot; after a minute the rag began to rise; in ten minutes it had risen a foot; then the rag was removed and a little tree was exposed, with leaves upon it and ripe fruit.
We ate the fruit, and it was good.
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