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Updated: June 13, 2025
This is 'Miss Priscilla Tomboy, from The Romp. You must conceive that the mother is speaking, and that the forward young minx is answering. And she began a scene between the two of them, so exact in voice and manner that it seemed to us as if there were really two folk before us: the stern old mother with her hand up like an ear-trumpet, and her flouncing, bouncing daughter.
"What, in the name of goodness, do you want with that trumpet machine?" he roared. "A young 'un like you! Lookee here let's get rid of it." And Joe snatched the ear-trumpet out of his hand, and jerked it over a shed into the field behind. It was a good long jerk; and most of the young men of the place would have been proud to do it. "Can hear just as well as I can; that's what you can do!
Murray righted it with a pleasant low laugh that came distinctly to Margaret's ears as she sat watching the little scene from the corner of the third-class carriage. Then she seemed to be asking Eleanor some questions, which the latter answered readily through the ear-trumpet which Mrs. Murray held out to her. Once they looked in her direction, and a spasm of alarm shot through Margaret's mind.
A rare variety of the cloud-and-angel series, which are so frequent, is seen in Longfield Churchyard on the Maidstone Road. Trumpets of the speaking or musical order are frequently introduced to typify the summons to resurrection, but here we have the listener pourtrayed by the introduction of an ear-trumpet. "To Mary Davidge, died 1772, aged 69 years."
The cognitive or representative element in a work of art can be useful as a means to the perception of formal relations and in no other way. It is valuable to the spectator, but it is of no value to the work of art; or rather it is valuable to the work of art as an ear-trumpet is valuable to one who would converse with the deaf: the speaker could do as well without it, the listener could not.
Why in Heaven’s name don’t you say suthin’? Anythin’? Anythin’ but nothin’, that is." "He’s mowin’," Lucinda shrieked. "Sewin’!" exclaimed Aunt Mary. "What’s he sewin’? Where’s he sewin’? Have you stopped doin’ his darnin’?" Lucinda gathered breath by compressing her sides with her hands, and then replied, directing her voice right into the ear-trumpet: "He’s mowin’ the back lawn."
I do hope she won't go on kissing me so much with her big mouth! how fast she does twist it about! and then her front teeth stick out so! and she keeps shoving that great black ear-trumpet at me, whenever she thinks I want to speak; and her eyes are as pale and watery as they can be, and they look all around you and never at you.
The old lady with the ear-trumpet asked Glory whether she could go on for the whole of an afternoon, and if she felt much fatigued sometimes, and didn't often catch cold. But the lady in satin came to her relief at last. "You will need some refreshment," she said. "Let me see now if I can not " and she lifted her glass and looked round the room.
After I had given my order, the waiter brought a curious-looking oblong case, with an ear-trumpet attached, and, placing it before me, went away. I foresaw that I should have to ask a good many questions before I got through, and, if I did not mean to be a bore, I had best ask as few as necessary. I determined to find ont what this trap was without assistance.
"Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me: and they do not wish what belongs to it." His power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses. He saw as with microscope, heard as with ear-trumpet, and his memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.
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