6. This is dialogue, and while the inflexions required are those of ordinary conversation, do not let your manner be too tame.
7. Make the announcement contained in this verse with evident satisfaction. The last line is emphatic and should be spoken with full volume.
8. Make a pause after the word statue in the first line and recite the remainder of this line in a tone of surprise. In the second line make the gesture in [Figure 13 of Typical Gestures]. Let your facial expression indicate satisfaction.
THE PUZZLED BOY.
“Well—whose boy am I, any way?
I fell down cellar yesterday,
And gave my head an awful bump
(If you had only seen the lump!)