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388 ANECDOTES OF LEE SUGG.
In the month of November 1799, he was on his jour-
ney to March, in the Isle of Ely, when he saw some
countrymen loading oats, in a field that had been in-
undated by the heavy rains, which occasioned the harvest
to be extremely backward ; seeing an empty cart going to
the field, he took this opportunity of entering into dis-
course with the driver of it, and unobserved by the man,
threw his figure of a sailor, which he carried with him, and
into which he threw his voice, into the empty cart. At the
same time alighting from his carriage, he said he should
like to go and see the state in which the oats were; he
accordingly proceeded to the field. The men began load-
ing their cart; and when their work was about half ac-
complished, the mail coach came on the road, and Lee
Sugg’s carriage rather stopping the way, the coachman and
passengers enquired whose it was. They were answered,
Lee Sugg’s, and that he was gone to alarm the countrymen
in the field; the passengers prevailed on the coachman
to stop and see the effect ventriloquism would have on
these people, they assented and did not repent it.—Lee
Sugg now threw his voice into the cart—“ I shall be suf-
focated.” The ventriloquist affected much surprise ; the
countrymen stared at each other, seemingly astonished;
the voice still repeated the cry of take me out, father,
I shall be suffocated! I shall be smothered !” Lee Sugg
now enquired of them if they had any children with them.
They answered, No. He then asked, “ Where are you, my
dear, and where did you come from I” The voice replies,
“ I’m in the bottom of the cart, I came for a ride from
school, from Doddington. Oh! pray make haste, or I
shall die !” The countrymen now became quite alarmed,
and Lee Sugg affecting great concern, and at the same
time in a seeming passion, exclaimed, “ For God’s
sake, make haste, unload ; it’s my rascal of a boy that I
have just left at school with Mr. Binfield, at Doddington,
he
In the month of November 1799, he was on his jour-
ney to March, in the Isle of Ely, when he saw some
countrymen loading oats, in a field that had been in-
undated by the heavy rains, which occasioned the harvest
to be extremely backward ; seeing an empty cart going to
the field, he took this opportunity of entering into dis-
course with the driver of it, and unobserved by the man,
threw his figure of a sailor, which he carried with him, and
into which he threw his voice, into the empty cart. At the
same time alighting from his carriage, he said he should
like to go and see the state in which the oats were; he
accordingly proceeded to the field. The men began load-
ing their cart; and when their work was about half ac-
complished, the mail coach came on the road, and Lee
Sugg’s carriage rather stopping the way, the coachman and
passengers enquired whose it was. They were answered,
Lee Sugg’s, and that he was gone to alarm the countrymen
in the field; the passengers prevailed on the coachman
to stop and see the effect ventriloquism would have on
these people, they assented and did not repent it.—Lee
Sugg now threw his voice into the cart—“ I shall be suf-
focated.” The ventriloquist affected much surprise ; the
countrymen stared at each other, seemingly astonished;
the voice still repeated the cry of take me out, father,
I shall be suffocated! I shall be smothered !” Lee Sugg
now enquired of them if they had any children with them.
They answered, No. He then asked, “ Where are you, my
dear, and where did you come from I” The voice replies,
“ I’m in the bottom of the cart, I came for a ride from
school, from Doddington. Oh! pray make haste, or I
shall die !” The countrymen now became quite alarmed,
and Lee Sugg affecting great concern, and at the same
time in a seeming passion, exclaimed, “ For God’s
sake, make haste, unload ; it’s my rascal of a boy that I
have just left at school with Mr. Binfield, at Doddington,
he