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What sort of a binding agreement had we ought to get up?" asked Bobolink, pretending that it was Tom Bates who spoke; for really the boy had a wonderful gift of ventriloquism, and often amused himself, and his friends as well, by sending his voice into strange places, to the wonder of those who were not aware of his tricks.
'Who told you such ridiculous nonsense? The answer 'George' was deemed conclusive that all had been got up by that youth; and there was considerable evidence of his talent for ventriloquism and taste for practical jokes. My mother was certain that, having heard of the popular superstition, he had acted ghost.
'How many persons were there? 'Five. 'Quite right. Can you tell me who they were? 'Well, Mary was there, and you, of course; but I can't be sure of the others. "Blake looked at me in astonishment, and our minds flashed along the same line. Suppose the whisper were only a bit of clever ventriloquism, how did the psychic secure the information conveyed in this dialogue?
"You mean to break his will," said the Syrian, looking down at the ground, "by your eye and the laying on of hands, as you did mine and Triphis's two years ago?" "That, no doubt, formed the first bond between us," said Serapion. "I now need only your ventriloquism. Philip himself will come half-way to meet me on the main point." "And what is that?"
The whole thing was a careful reproduction of the Egyptian teraphin that one reads about sometimes; and the voice was as clever and as appalling a piece of ventriloquism as one could wish to hear. All this time the head was "lip-lip-lapping" against the side of the basin, and speaking.
Mildred Norrington, a girl of seventeen, used ventriloquism with such skill that she convinced two clergymen and all her neighbors that she was possessed. In answer to queries, the evil spirit that spoke through Mildred declared that "old Alice of Westwell" had sent him to possess the girl. Alice, the spirit admitted, stood guilty of terrible witchcrafts.
"Does this theory cover the whispering personalities we heard? What about 'Wilbur' and 'Maudie'?" "That's easy," retorted Howard. "Once you explain the manipulation of the cone, the rest is merely clever ventriloquism." "There is nothing 'easy' about any of these phenomena," I answered. "As Richet says, they are absurd, but they are observed facts.
But a puritanical mother had, on the tour preceding, written Professor O'Reilley, objecting to the devil's conquest of the unrepentant old reprobate, so that master of ventriloquism introduced a new character into the ancient tale, and the devil went the way of Punch's other victims. "H-m-m," puzzled John with wrinkled brow. "This isn't the same What's that?"
"Won't you tell me who you were on the earth-plane?" "I was a friend of the father of the instrument," he answered. The horn returned to the table quietly, and young Howard was the first to speak. "That is a fine piece of ventriloquism, any way you look at it," said he. "It is a nice trick to give that peculiar tinny sound to a whisper." Smiley has not moved, nor uttered a sound.
It may be a humorous one, pointed with quaint wit, barbed with sarcasm, seasoned with homely proverbs, and acted out with singular powers of mimicry and even of ventriloquism. But more frequently it will treat of the adventures of the hunter or the traveller, and the still graver themes of war and love.
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