New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory

by Henry Davenport Northrop

The following exercises are suitable for this drill, and always prove very entertaining to the audience.

Carry—Arms!—The broom is held in the right hand, handle upward, with the hand clasping the handle where it joins the brush. The left hand hangs at the side. (Fig. 1.)

Fig. 1.

Present—Arms!—Place the broom with the right hand in front of the centre of the body, clasping the handle with the left hand above the right. Hold the broom perfectly perpendicular. (Fig. 2.)

Fig. 2.

Order—Arms!—Let go the handle with the left hand, and carry the broom to the side with the right hand; then drop the broom to the floor. (Fig. 3.)

Fig. 3.