Voice [ironically]: Send for Sally and p’lice, I’ll foller.
Student: Impudent rascal.
Voice: Keep your compliments at home, Master Idlebones.
Student [opining the door]: I’ll report you to your master.
Voice [louder, as the door is opened]: Will you, young Whippersnapper, pay us the dime, and let us go?
Student offers to pay, while the voice gets weaker in the distance with “Milk below!” until it becomes inaudible.
A conversation may be held in a similar strain with cellarman: and, as a rule, the lower notes of the voice will be best for voices in the basement, and formed as low in the chest as possible.
Student: Thomas, are you coming?
Voice below [gruffly]: I should think I was.
Student: We are waiting for the beer.