Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Bell Song, The 24 Christmas Every Day 7 Cranberry March 26 Dance of the Holly and Mistletoe 28 Fred’s Christmas Shopping 9 Hollyberry Drill 32 In Grandma’s Day 11 Old Aunt Dinah’s Christmas 18 Pickaninny’s Christmas, The 34 Pop-corn Dance 37 Sleighbell Drill, The 41 Too Much C...
Bell Song, The 24 Christmas Every Day 7 Cranberry March 26 Dance of the Holly and Mistletoe 28 Fred’s Christmas Shopping 9 Hollyberry Drill 32 In Grandma’s Day 11 Old Aunt Dinah...
2. PART II.All the Year ’Round 45 Boy’s Christmas, A 49 Christmas Bargain, A 51 First Christmas, The 57 King of the Year, The 61 Mrs. Randy’s Christmas 72 Ready for Santa Claus 80 Santa Cl...
3. PART I.Dear little Dorothy Dill Magee Had a very beautiful Christmas tree; And on it were hung the loveliest things, Dolls, and sashes, and gloves, and rings, Till nothing more, you wo...
4. PART II.BOY. Whatever shall I do? Christmas is almost here and not a single thing finished. You see (_addressing audience_), when a fellow’s folks have a small purse and a large family...
5. SCENE II—_MOTHER sewing. CHILD comes in dressed fancifully.CHILD (_severely_). No, Mary, you can’t. You’ve played enough; and if you don’t go to school, why, you’ve got to study at home—just lots. (_Sits down, adjusts dress, folds hands...
6. SCENE III—_Evening. MOTHER reading, CHILD sitting upright and nodding,CHILD (_wistfully_). If I was Mary I would say, “Yes.” But I’m mamma. (_Then suddenly runs to her mother and leans against her._) Oh, I don’t want to be Mother any more. It’s ha...
7. SCENE II: _Interior of MR. RADCLIFFE’S room. Table, chairs, couch,BOB (_protesting_). Oh, Mr. Radcliffe! No, sir! Leastways not as I ever see. We’re glad at Christmas, sir—and give things, sir, an’ gets ’em—an’ we feels kind to everybody, sir—...
8. SCENE III: _When the curtain is drawn again it shows MR. R. seated atfront and extreme right of the stage, facing the center, with his feet up and his handkerchief over his face as at close of last scene. At the front and extreme left of the stag...
9. SCENE IV: _When the curtain is again drawn, it shows a high screen, ora curtain through the middle of the stage from rear to front. On the right side of this screen from the audience sits MR. RADCLIFFE, asleep as he was during the dream pictures,...
10. SCENE IV: _MISS D. enters at left, MR. R. at right. Both have umbrellasMR. R. A merry Christmas. (_They pass, then both stop and each looks back at the other. He comes back._) You may think me a little out of balance—but I must ask if you ever knew...