pages: practicalmagicia00harr.pdf, 94
This data as json
path | page | folder | text |
---|---|---|---|
practicalmagicia00harr.pdf | 94 | 84 THE PRACTICAL MAGICIAN. ANOTHER VOICE : Watercresses ! STUDENT : Really, this is too bad. Go away. VOICE : You owe mc ten cents for last week's milk; I was to wait. STUDENT : This is intolerable. I'll send for the police. VOICE [ironically] ; Send for Sally and p'lice, l'll foller. STUDENT ; Impudent rascal : VOICE ; Keep your compliments at home, Master Idlebones. STUDENT [opening the door]: I'll report you to your master. VOICE [louder, as the door is opened] ; Will you, young Whipper- snapper, pay us the dime, and let us go? STUDENT offers to pay, while the voice gets weaker in the dis- tance with Milk below !" until it becomes inaudible. A conversation may be held in a similar strain with thecellarman : and, as a rule, the lowernotes of the voice will be best for voices in the basement, and formed as low in the chest as possible. STUDENT : Thomas, are you coming? VOICE BELOW [grufty] ; I should think I was. STUDENT ; We are waiting for the beer. VOICE [partly aside]: The longer you wait, the greater our honor. Mary, have another drop. STUDENT ; Why, the scamp is drinking the beer ! Thomas ! Who's there with you? VOICE : Myself. [Aside] Make haste with the pot, Mary ; he's in such a hurry. STUDENT ; You drinking rascal, how dare you ! VOICE : Coming, sir. The barrel's nearly empty. STUDENT : I should think so, tippling: as you are at it. VOICE ; Now don't be saucy. STUDENT : The fellow is getting intoxicated. Thomas ! Vorca ; Wait till I come. I have waited for you many times. STUDENT : I suppose it is of no use hurrying you? VOICE ; No, it isn't, my young tippler. I'm COMING ! coming ! ! coming ! ! ! From this illustration the student may proceed to try the second voice. No. II. Voice No. 2. - -This is the more easy to be acquired. It is the voice by which all ventriloquists make a supposed person speak from a long distance, or from, or through the cciling. In the first place, with your back to the audience, direct their attention to the ceiling by pointing to it or by intently nt it. Call loudly, and ack some question, as though you believed some person to be concealed there. Make your own voice very distinct, and as near the lips as possible, inasmuch as that will help the illusion, |