Growing Pears
... that a popular account of the Indian rope trick by Chicago Tribune journalist John Wilkie may have been inspired by the Chinese short story "Growing Pears"?
... that a popular account of the <a href="./Indian_rope_trick" id="mwA3M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indian rope trick">Indian rope trick</a> by <i id="mwA3Q"><a href="./Chicago_Tribune" id="mwA3U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> journalist <a href="./John_Wilkie" id="mwA3Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Wilkie">John Wilkie</a> may have been inspired by the Chinese short story "<b id="mwA3c"><a href="./Growing_Pears" id="mwA3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Growing Pears">Growing Pears</a></b>"?