https://www.pitara.com/tags/magicians/Recent content in Magicians on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/excerpts-from-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-magician/Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:31:25 +0000https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/excerpts-from-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-magician/<p><em>Excerpts from  &lsquo;A Day in the Life of a Magician&rsquo;. First published by Vigyan Prasar, India</em></p> <p>Years ago I gave up hanging up a stocking on Christmas Eve. One reason is that I have no stockings to hang, because I almost always wear trousers, and even when I wear shorts I wear socks with them so as to make my calves brown. And I don&rsquo;t think Father Christmas would find room in a sock for all the things I want. So when I woke up on Christmas morning I was rather surprised to see one of my socks hanging on the bottom of the bed, and much more so when it got up and walked along the counterpane towards me.</p>