Indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1888)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, author · London : Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly · leaf 517
Biddy the apple-woman’s face, so : you are ready to make a nice little speech, and introduce ‘ Biddy ’ to your expectant audience in the back parlour. Indian ink will give her eyes as black as Susan’s, and a little red paint, judi¬ ciously applied to the top of the thumb and that part of the hand… … from your lips and muscles, which you must nevertheless keep in as much rest as possible. Let Biddy’s sentences be short and emphatic, and in a tone as unlike your natural voice as you can assume. As Biddy speaks you must move your thumb up and down, which motion can be so made as to give the idea…
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