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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 100 | or at a distance. Ample directions have been given how all this is donc, but let it be understood that it is most essential. The stu- dent may then practice before a friend, and he will be astonished to find that he can deceive any listener, as to the point from which the sound comes ; and will be gratified that he has become the source of great amusement to himself as well as in the circle in which he moves. Thus we have acquired a working power in the art which, we trust, we have now explained to the satisfaction of the reader. The progress of the student will, of course, be facilitated by an inherent propensity of mimicry, which often approaches some of the minor attainments of ventriloquism. In every company some person may be found who, without any professional instruction, can give admirable limitations, of the voice, gait, and peculiarities of a frient or acquaintance; thus proving that Nature, to some extent, supplies the basis upon which, if we may use the phrase, |