And with this fine clear note was the elusive voice of another cricket that had such a marked ventriloquial character that we could never tell whether he lived in the rose bushes or in the trees.

But enough has been said to show by what arts of impersonation, and in what purely ventriloquial efforts I first saw my words on paper.

"The gobbling neighing in the park was a ventriloquial achievement on the part of Parsket and the attack out there on Beaumont was also by him, so that when I thought he was in his bedroom, he must have been outside all the time and joined me after I ran out of the front door.

From the very first qualms I'm in terrible distress; the earth gives way under me, my eyes dilate, I hurriedly swallow quantities of salty saliva; involuntary, ventriloquial cries escape me, my sides bulge out TOBY-DOG, (disgusted) I say, if it's all the same to you, tell me the rest after dinner.

"About the yachting trip," she said, with a glance at her husband that made his choking take on a ventriloquial effect of distance.