Action is of two kinds,--representative and manifestative. In representative action one illustrates, describes, indicates objects, places, and directions. One shows the objective situations and relations. Manifestative pantomime, on the contrary, reveals the feelings and experiences of the human mind, or the subjective situations and relations. Representative pantomime is apt to degenerate into mere imitative movements. Manifestative pantomime centres in the eye or the face, but belongs to the whole body. Even when we make representative movements with the hand and arm, the attitude of the hand shows the conditions prompting the gesture, and face and body show the real experiences and feelings. In the giving of humorous monologues, representative action is often appropriate and necessary. The hearer must be located, objects must often be distributed and rightly related to assist the audience in conceiving the situation. The need of representative action is seen in Day's "Old Boggs' Slarnt." OLD BOGGS' SLARNT Old Bill Boggs is always sayin' that he'd like to, but he carnt; He hain't never had no chances, he hain't never got no slarnt. Says it's all dum foolish tryin', 'less ye git the proper start, Says he's never seed no op'nin' so he's never had no heart. But he's chawed enough tobacker for to fill a hogset up, And has spent his time a-trainin' some all-fired kind of pup; While his wife has took in washin' and his children hain't been larnt 'Cause old Boggs is allus whinin' that he's never got no slarnt. Them air young uns round the gros'ry hadn't oughter done the thing! Now it's done, though, and it's over, 'twas a cracker-jack, by jing. Boggs, ye see, has been a-settin' twenty years on one old plank, One end h'isted on a saw-hoss, t'other on the cistern tank. T'other night he was a-chawin' and he says, "I vum-spt-ooo-- Here I am a-owin' money--not a gol durn thing to do! 'Tain't no use er buckin' chances, ner er fightin' back at Luck, --Less ye have some way er startin', feller's sartin to be stuck. Needs a slarnt to get yer going"--then them young uns give a carnt, --Plank went up an' down old Boggs went--yas, he got it, got his slarnt. Course, the young uns shouldn't done it--sent mine off along to bed-- Helped to pry Boggs out the cistern--he warn't more 'n three-quarters dead. Didn't no one 'prove the actions, but when all them kids was gone, Thunder mighty! How we hollered! Gab'rel couldn't heered his horn. When the speaker in the monologue describes the plank which has "One end h'isted on a saw-hoss, t'other on the cistern tank," he would naturally in conversation describe and indicate the tank and the saw-horse and the direction of the slope of the plank. Then, when "... them young uns give a carnt,"