[Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart]@TWC D-Link bookInjun and Whitey to the Rescue CHAPTER XVIII 3/5
So I'll assume that, with Injun and Whitey, you'd like to see a bit of this poor little troupe's efforts, which were pathetic in a way, though no one thought of that. Whitey had been wondering what particular talents Mr.Mildini was master of, and he found that they were many.
He could and did dance, sing, and tell comic stories in a number of dialects, all convulsing.
But tricks were the crowning wonder of Mildini's performance, though he called them "feats of magic." I'd hesitate to tell you the things he could take out of a silk hat; live rabbits, endless strips of colored paper, jars of imitation goldfish, and many other useless articles.
It is true that the silk hat was his, no one in the audience having been able to produce one, when requested to do so but it was passed freely among the crowd to be examined; to convince doubters that there was no "deception." Endless eggs could Mildini take from his mouth, ears, hair, or from the mouth, ears, or hair of any "gent" in the audience. And every one, from store-keeper to hold-up man, wondered and laughed and was pleasantly deceived.
And after one of the most difficult tricks, when a puncher said, "I wonder what he's goin' t' do next ?" the people near Whitey were puzzled when he burst into laughter. Then there was Mrs.Mildini, who, it seemed, was "Mademoiselle Therese," who not only could draw enchanting melodies from a violin, but could make it speak in the language of various barnyard creatures, such as geese, chickens, pigs--oh, almost anything.
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