The Egg Dance

One of the most wonderful of the many feats performed by Hindoo jngglers is the egg dance. Usually it is executed by a gul, faatastically dressed. She makes use of the willow wheel, around which at eqvial distances are threads, and at the end of each thread there is a noose, held opeu by a bead. This whcel the girl places on her head, while she carries a basket of eggs on her arm. When the music strikes up, she begins to dauce, and the -wheel begins to spin around. She theo fakes an egg from the basket, places it in one of the thread nooses and throws it from her with suficient force to draw the knot tight. The spinning of the wheel keeps the thread stretched, with the egg at the end of it. She thon takes another egg frorn the basket, places it in another noose and repeats this until there is an egg in every noose. Her fantastic costume, her perfect motion and all the eggs swinging on the stretched threads at once present a very pretty sight indeed. It reqnires rnuch art to execute the dance, for at one false step the eggs would be dashed together, the dance spoiled and the dancer thereby disgraced. Alter dancing for a time with all the eggs swinging around her head she takes them out of the noose one by one, all the time keeping the wheel balanced and in motion, and again places them in the basket on her arm. When the dance is finished, the speotators are allowed to examine the eggs