Toastmasters Interpretive Reading Competition
from "Poor Man's Orange" by Ruth Park
Date presented: February, 2004
Time 4 to 6 minutes.
Dolour Takes a Bath
"I'm going to take a bath," decided Dolour....
It was an important decision for bathing in the Darcy household was fraught with both danger and adventure. Since they had been using the old tin tub to bathe the baby in, they had been climbing into the wooden washtubs, a difficult business, for the tubs, with their chewed, pitted bottoms and slanting sides were never made for comfortable accommodation of the human body....
Sorry, I've removed the rest of this extract, as I don't want to breach Copyright laws. I hope you can read the book, "Poor Man's Orange" by Ruth Park. It's very good. Read "The Harp in the South" first, if you can.
COMMENTS
"Poor Man's Orange" and it's forerunner, "The Harp in the South" are among my favourite books. I chose this extract from Chapter 17, because the dialogue provided opportunity for plenty of vocal variety, and was fun to read. Even the judges enjoyed it - I won first place!
MAMALADE
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