Voice (as before): Have pity (Tom, or Jack, or Mr. ——, as the case may be), or I shall be choked.
Student: I don’t believe you are what you say.
Voice: Why don’t you let me out and see before I am dead?
STUDENT (opening and shutting the lid or door and varying the voice accordingly): Dead! not you. When did you leave Canada?
Voice: Last week. Oh? I am choking.
Student: Shall I let him out? (opening the door). There’s no one here.
2. The Milkman at the Door.—This affords a capital opportunity of introducing a beggar, watercress or milkman, and may be varied accordingly. We will take Skyblue, the milkman; and we would impress on the student, that, although we give these simple dialogues, they are merely intended as illustrations for the modest tyro, not to be implicitly followed when greater confidence and proficiency are attained.
Voice: Milk below!
Student: Is it not provoking that a milkman always comes when he is not wanted, and is absent when we are waiting for the cream?
Voice: (whistling a bar of “Shoo Fly”).