A magician was demonstrating his tricks at a country fair, on an open-air stage. He got loud applause when he took out a rabbit from his hat.Unknown to the magician and the spectators, a tiger was watching the show from behind some bushes, nearby. Later that night, the tiger waylaid the magician as he was going home.“I saw you pull a rabbit out of your hat,” he said. “Pull out a cub for me!”“The rabbit was in the bag all the time,” blurted the magician, trembling from head to toe. “I cannot create animals out of thin air!”“Produce a tiger cub if you know what’s good for you!” snarled the beast.“All right, all right!” said the magician, thinking fast. “But it’ll take some time. A month at least.”“I can wait!”“There’s another thing,” said the magician, a plan forming in his mind. “You’ll have to stay on a diet of milk and rice during the entire period!”“Milk and rice!”“Otherwise the trick will not work.”“All right,” said the tiger, finally. “ I’ll live on milk and rice.”He went away and returned a month later.“Now let me have the cub,” he said, in a barely audible voice, his diet having made him extremely weak.The magician called the whole village to witness the magic trick.“This is a special show for our guest here,” he announced. “So instead of pulling out a rabbit from my hat I’ll pull out a young member of his family.”He muttered some mumbo-jumbo, passed his hands over the hat several times, and then with a loud cry plunged his hand into the hat and pulled out a small cuddly animal.“A kitten!” guffawed the spectators.The kitten meowed.The tiger was not amused. He let out a mighty roar, or at least he had intended to roar but in his weakened state the sound that emerged from his mouth was a loud“MEEEEE-OOOWWW!”The villagers rocked with laughter. The tiger felt so ashamed that he leapt out of his seat and ran away, and was never seen again.
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