Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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The Egg Dance as Seen in India

....... are disposed of in the same way, until should she make a false step, the egg every thread is provided with one. would dash against each other, and sh This part of the performance completed, would have to retire in disgrace. No fea the girl quickens her dancing speed so marvellously that it is impossible for any of any such misfortune, however; thegirl is too clever in her business to fail in it.

Still, clever as she may be, the girl what she next begins doing is to take cannot go on dancing for ever, and so each egg out of its noose, while she herlong as the eggs are thus fastened to the self still whirls round, until all of them ends of the threads, it is impossible for her are again safely placed side by side in to stop without their being broken; so the basket.

THE EGG DANCE AS SEEN IN INDIA.
THE EGG DANCE AS SEEN IN INDIA.
they do not pray to him; because
they do not pray to him; because
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