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Excerpt from Comedies and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys and Girls A clever boy or girl can easily make the pup pets Or can use ordinary dolls rather loose in the arm and thigh joints. In the latter case the dolls should have a stout wire around the waist under the clothes, running up the back, secured at the neck by another ring of wire (easily concealed under a ruff or a necklace), thence going up back Of the head for several inches, bent at the end into a hook. A slender wire or a thread with a ring attached is fastened to the right wrist, or, if the marionettes are large, there is one for each arm, which controls the movements of the arm. Thus the little actors can walk and run, Sit down and rise again, shake hands, fight, or embrace, in short, do enough to keep the stage in constant activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.