THE HUMAN VOICE.
A boy ten years old can stand out in the street of a quiet village on a calm summer afternoon and make the air quiver, and startle the dozing population out of a year's peace, by shrieking 1o a boy threequarters of a mile away :—: — " Oh Bkinnee, comin' nout tafter supper ? " And the other lad will yell back with awful distinctness and care : — " Yes ! Git yer nigger-shooter'n come to the store ! " And they will converse in the same thrilling pitch and maddening force if they are only ten feet apart. But. twenty or '■^fc tv years afterwards, those boys will get up to address a puTlic meeting in a hall not fifty feet deep, and ten feet away from the speaker not a living soul can hear a word he says. — Burlington Htrnkeye.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 20, 5 September 1884, Page 29
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136THE HUMAN VOICE. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 20, 5 September 1884, Page 29
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