The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-01
THE VENTRILOQUIST.
Swears Off Trying to Throw Voice
Into Trunks.
(MaX Adler.)

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1 mentioned some time ago the failure
of my young friend, Peter Lamb, to
succeed as a magician in the perform
ance of the famous goldfish trick -
Since then he has been learning ven
! triloquism, and he has succeeded very
well in throwing his voice about so
that it appears to come from any other
place than his own throat.
one night last week there was a lit
tie party over at Judge Pitman's, and
during the evening MIR. Lamb said he
would like to give the company an ex-
hlbition of his powers. After throwing
his voice into the cellar, the closets,
the piano and the chimney he got Mrs
Pitman TO let him have d huge Sara
toga trunk.
Placing this on the floor at one end
of the parlor he began to hold a con-
versation with an imaginary person
concealed in the trunk, and he would
open and close the lid, letting his voice
die away in a wonderful manner as the
lid went down.
After a while however, while he
was conVersing with the supposititious
being in the trunk, he happened to put
his face close 10 the aperture, and just
then the lid slipped and shut upon his
As there was a spring lock upon the
trunk Mr.. Lambs nose was held in a
particularly close manner
1t was a very awkward predicament,
and the trunk hurt his nose. He re-
marked to the bystanders: This is
painful; very, very painful, indeedi'
and when Mr.. Waterman suggested
that he should wrench himself loose he
was heard TO say that in that event he
CHI HI H..
his nose in the possession of Judge Pit
mans family.
Then Mrs. Pitman flew upstairs and
tried TO find the key. and while she was
gone old Mrs. Blakely who is a little
deaf, and who didn't seem to under
stand the situation exactly, asked out
loud why Mr.. Lamb persisted in smell
ing the trunk so long.
When Mrs. Pitman came down she
announced that she couldn't find the
key anywhere, and then all the keys in
the pockets of the company were tried.
but with no avail.
The judge then said he was willing
to split up the trunk with the ak if that
would do any good, but Mr.. Lamb said
that the shock would kill him out
right Then young Potts asked him
why he didn't sneeze and blow himself
loose in that manner. and Mr. Lamb
tSOiNet lIldL ne WOULD PUNISH Sucn Qfl-
timely levity on the morrow by punch
ing Mr.. Potts head.
So at last Peter said that as his posi-
ton was very embarrassing he wished
they would help him around home, and
then send a locksmith to his house.
And two of his friends lifted the trunk
very tenderly indeed, while Peter at
the same time rose softly from his
knees, and they all went through the
door, trunk foremost, with Mr.. Lamb |
closely and grooming at every |
step.
The procession attracted a good deal |
If attention as it went through the
streets, and by the time 1t reached Mr.. |
lambs house there We're about 200 BOYS
present, making disagreeable remarks |
about the melancholy conditions of |
Kings.
Then they got a locksmith, and af-
er about an hours hard work, during
which the nose of the ventriloquist was
twfully wrenched, they got the trunk
Dpen.
Then they bandaged his nose and put
irnica on it, and that night Mr.. Lamb
etired permanently from business as
professor of the art of throwing his
roice into Saratoga trunks. He thinks
low that if he has any forte as a ma
slcian 1t must lie in the direction of
neSmeriSm.