I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to Ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so.
"Fanny Goes to War"
Pat Beauchamp
Mrs. Pope attended discreetly, and Daffy and Marjorie with a less restrained interest, to Mr. Wintersloan, who showed them how to make faces out of a fist tied up in a pocket-handkerchief, how to Ventriloquize, how to conjure with halfpence-which he did very amusingly-and what the buttons on a man's sleeve were for; Theodore clambering at his back discovered what he was at, and by right of birthday made him do all the faces and tricks over again.
"Marriage"
H. G. Wells