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practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 93 | THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. 83 STUDENT (pointing to the box with an air of astonishment) : What is that ? VOICE: 1 won't do so any more. I am nearly dead. STUDENT : Who are you How came you there ? VOICE : I only wanted to see what was going on. Let me out, do. STUDENT : But I don't know who you are. VOICE : Oh yes, you do. STUDENT : Who are you ? VOICE : Your old schoolfellow, Tom, . You know me. STUDENT : Why, he's in Canada. VOICE (sharply) : No he aint, he's here ; but be quick, STUDENT (opening the lid) Perhaps lic's come by the under- ground railroad ? Hallo ! VOICE (not so muffled as described in direction) : Now then, give us a hand. STUDENT (closing the lid or door sharply) : No, I wont. VOICE (ns before) : Have pity (Tom, or Jack, or Mr. , as the case may be), or I shall be choked. STUDENT : I don't believe you are what you say. VOICE : Why don't you let me out and see before I am dead ? STUDENT (opening and shutting the lid or door and varying the voice accordingly) : Dead ! not you. When did you leave Can- ada ? VOICE : Last week. Oh ? I am choking. STUDENT : Shall I let him out ? (opening the door). There's no one here. 2. THE MILKMAN AT THE DOOR.-TI affords a capital op- portunity of introducing a beggar, watercress or milkman, and may be varied accordingly. We will take Skyblue, the milkman; and we would impress on the student, that, although we give these simple dialogues, they are merely intended as illustrations for the modest tyro, not to be implicitly followed when greater confidence and proficiency are attained. VOICE : Milk below ! STUDENT : Is it not provoking that a milkman always comes when he is not wanted, and is absent when we are waiting for the cream ? VOICE : (whistling a bar of 11 Shoo Fly"). STUDENT : Oh, yes, always the broken-hearted milkman as if he was not as happy as a king. VOICE (nearer) : Milk below ! Why, Sally, where's the can ? ] STUDENT : Sally will be long in answering, I think. VOICE : Sally's gadding with the police. Milk below ! STUDENT (slightly opening the door.) : We don't want any milk, ny good man. VOICE : No skim milk for the sat, or cream for ten ? |