As you develop in your skill you may want to merge voices for your ventriloquism puppets into one another, thus enabling a man on the roof to climb down, a man in the closet to go away on a level, and a man in the cellar to ascend to warmer and more comfortable quarters.

The student will be eager to add to his accomplishments the power of fetching a voice for his ventriloquism dummy from a box or trunk and through the walls or ceiling of a room, and even from the cellar.

Ventriloquism requires the possession of certain qualities of voice, such as strength, clearness, flexibility and ready ability to change at will.

It can be amusing when you learn ventriloquism to perfect the imitation of various sounds found both in nature and man made. You can achieve very realistic sounds if you follow the instructions below.

Polyphonism, in its entertainment sense, is the imitation of sounds other than speech, such as the humming of bees, the bleating of sheep, many of which cannot be made ventriloquially, and so form no deception as to the source from which they emanate.

After taking a few lessons the student may find that he has a hitherto unsuspected talent for the art of ventriloquism, which only needs proper cultivation to be made a source of amusement and profit.

Ventriloquism is almost as old as the world, or at least as old as intelligible spoken language, but just when and where in the dim and misty ages of the past it had its origin will forever remain unknown.