As he yielded to this suggestion a ready and rapturous assent, they all rose and walked away together; he keeping close to the box of
puppets in which he was quite absorbed, the merry little man carrying it slung over his arm by a strap attached to it for the purpose, Nelly having hold of her grandfather's hand, and Mr Codlin sauntering slowly behind, casting up at the church tower and neighbouring trees such looks as he was accustomed in town-practice to direct to drawing-room and nursery windows, when seeking for a profitable spot on which to plant the show.
Will a group of joyous children, the young ones of the house, come dancing, shouting, laughing, into the open air, and cluster round the show-box, looking with eager merriment at the
puppets, and tossing each a copper for long-tailed Mammon, the monkey, to pick up?
"That puppet yonder," thought Mother Rigby, still with her eyes fixed on the scarecrow, "is too good a piece of work to stand all summer in a corn-patch, frightening away the crows and blackbirds.
And now, darling, I have taken so much pains with thee and thou art so beautiful, that, by my troth, I love thee better than any witch's puppet in the world; and I've made them of all sorts--clay, wax, straw, sticks, night fog, morning mist, sea foam, and chimney smoke.
Here the witch thrust her wrinkled face close to the puppet's, chuckling irrepressibly, and fidgeting all through her system, with delight at the idea which she meant to communicate.
And why should my poor puppet be the only one to know himself and perish for it?"
He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of
puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!
The opportunity for
puppets to enter the arena of critical adult entertainment on national television seems to have been lost, as well as the initiative to raise
puppet entertainment on television to another level in South Africa.
ROYAL chauffeurs worked hand in glove with well-wishers at Ascot races this week - and greeted cheering crowds with
puppets.
The National
Puppet Theatre (NPT) of PNCA will showcase the skills of its puppeteers featuring vibrant costumed
puppets and will present folk tales, skits, regional dances and national songs to provide infotainment.
Her less-than-flattering likeness is now up for auction and could fetch thousands alongside other
puppets from the Baftawinning show.
JOURNEY INTO the world of magic and puppetry with "Wanlu And His
Puppets" on Dec.
In total, 60
puppets made of different materials will be shown at the event.
1 to promote the event, Chen proved his mastery of the art by manipulating
puppets to perform lifelike movements.
OPPRESSED: The
puppets are a picked-upon minority group THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS Cert 15 Running time 91mins ??
