The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 459
y perfect. One of the most favourite modes of ventriloquists now and for a longtime past has been to have two or more woodenfigures with jaws moved by strings acted upon bythe hands of the performer, or by pedals. Theartist then holds converse between these, and sotakes attention from his own… … VENTRILOQUISM, AND HOW TO ACQUIRE THE ART. 455
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