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If any one slipped in repeating he paid the forfeit. In some of their evening sports theatricals were in vogue. Ventriloquism also was attempted, in which, as they say, "voices spoke to them without bodies." They amused each other also by stories of hoodwinking and trickery, such as the following: A Samoan and a Tongan made friends with each other.
None of them had ever heard of ventriloquism, so limited had been their education and experience, so sequestered was their home amidst the wilderness of the mountains. Only very gradually to Brent himself came the consciousness of his unique gift, as from imitation he progressed to causing a silent bird to seem to sing.
I submit, however, that the episode of the bottle would split the rock of Peter, that the absence of Signor Pessina for twenty minutes previous to the performance, eked out with a little ventriloquism, and some Pepper accessories would explain much, and that there is also another hypothesis which I will leave to the discernment of my readers, and to which I lean personally.
Fred, at home, had often amused the guests of his family and the gatherings of the scout patrol to which he belonged with this trick of ventriloquism. But the German evidently had never heard of such a thing. And suddenly he broke into a run. He made for the gully and ran along it with stumbling feet. "Now stop!" boomed the voice directly in front of him! "Not a step further! Begin to count aloud.
What does that prove?" "You hear, Mahdi?" said the Professor; "the gentleman wants to know what that proves?" "It proves I know an ass when I see one, answered the Missing Link. "You daylight robber! You unblushing fraud!" yelled McKnight. "Stay," cried the Professor, with dignity. "Is it possible, sir, you have never heard of the art of ventriloquism? I am a ventriloquist.
I had that 'ere bestowment ever since I was knee high or so; I'm a real complete hand at ventriloquism; I can take off any man's voice I ever heerd to the very nines. If there was a law agin forgin' that as there is for handwritin', I guess I should have been hanged long ago. I've had high goes with it many a time, but it's plaguy dangersome, and I don't pracTISE it now but seldom.
It is quite possible that some of the old Pagan oracles were simply the deceptions of priests by means of ventriloquism. Dupont, Surgeon-in-chief of the French Army about a century since, examined minutely an individual professing to be a ventriloquist. With a stuffed fox on his lap near his epigastrium, he imitated a conversation with the fox.
"It must be great fun to be a ventriloquist." "So I regarded it at first. It may not be a very high vocation but I make the people laugh and so I regard myself as a public benefactor. Indeed, I once did an essential service to a young man by means of my ventriloquism." "I should like very much to hear the story." "I will tell you.
Still, this must be said of the "father," that it had a philosophy of life, and a distinct personality far deeper and more charming and in some way sweeter than David's; that it talked with an accent, which to the hearers seemed Italian, and in a voice that certainly could not have been the boy's by any trick of ventriloquism.
The miserable voice, the spirit in pain, he could think of as the result of ventriloquism, or reverberation, or anything you please: an elaborate prolonged hoax, executed somehow by the tramp that had found a lodging in the old tower; but the juniper-bush staggered him. Things have effects so different on the minds of different men.
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