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L. H. Branson
My old friend Shah Mahommed, aged 87 years, son of Ghaus Mahommed, who died aged 75 years, and grandson of Nur Mahommed who died at the age of 78 years, All three were itinerant conjurers and had never seen the rope trick
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Shah Mahommed singing Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay between two experiments
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Shah Mahommed with two assistants for the Ring on the Stick
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Preliminaries of the Restored Rope, the only rope trick that I have ever seen performed in India
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Shah Mahommed performing the egg bag trick
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The Dancing Duck, performed with an enamel bowl instead of the cocoa-nut shell
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The preliminary stage of the mango tree trick as shewn by Shah Mahommed
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Conclusion of the mango tree trick
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