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

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

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

One more famous trick of the Indian juggler is the one in which he takes out animals and birds out of the hat he is wearing. First he removes the hat from his head and then calls a boy from the crowd and asks him to put his hand in the hat and find if there is anything in his hat. The boy does the same and do not find anything in the hat. Then the juggler outs his hand in the hat and takes out a parrot of his hat. The he takes out pigeons and rabbits out of his hat leaving every one astonished

But the cleverest trick of an Indian juggler is what may be called as the ‘ring trick’. It is surprising that how the ring disappears. The juggler borrows a ring from the person standing in the crowd. He ties it up tightly in the corner of handkerchief, and gives it to a gentleman in the 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 show the ring and finds that the ring has disappeared! The juggler then picks up the apple lying on the ground, and asks the gentleman to cut it open; the later does so and to his surprise, lo!  the ring is there!

Such are the wonderful tricks of an Indian juggler.