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MacKenzie - -Release Date: December 3, 2016 [EBook #53654] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SNOWBOUND FOR CHRISTMAS *** - - - - -Produced by Emmy, MFR and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and italic -text is surrounded by _underscores_.] - - - -Snowbound for Christmas - - MACKENZIE - - - PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY - DAYTON, OHIO - - - - -MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS - -These songs can be used in all manner of entertainments. The music is -easy and both music and words are especially catchy. Children like -them. Everybody likes them. Sheet music. Price, 35 cents each. - - -=HERE’S TO THE LAND OF THE STARS AND THE STRIPES.= (Bugbee-Worrell.) A -patriotic song which every child should know and love. The sentiment -is elevating. The music is martial and inspiring. May be effectively -sung by the entire school. Suitable for any occasion and may be sung by -children or grown-ups. Be the first to use this song in your community. - -=I’LL NEVER PLAY WITH YOU AGAIN.= (Guptill-Weaver.) A Quarrel between a -small boy and girl. The words are defiant and pert. The boy and his dog -have been in mischief, and the small maiden poutingly declares that she -will never play with him again, but changes her mind in the last verse. -A taking little duet for any occasion, with full directions for motions. - -=JOLLY FARMER LADS AND LASSIES.= (Irish-Lyman.) A decidedly humorous -action song prepared especially for district schools. It will make a -hit wherever produced. - -=JOLLY PICKANINNIES.= (Worrell.) Introduce this coon song into your -next entertainment. If you use the directions for the motions which -accompany the music, the pickaninnies will bring down the house. Their -black faces and shining eyes will guarantee a “hit.” The words are -great and the music just right. - -=LULLABY LANE.= (Worrell.) This song is one which the children, once -having learned, will never forget. The words have the charm of the -verses written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The music is equally sweet -and is perfectly suited to the beautiful words. It may be sung as a -solo by a little girl with a chorus of other little girls with dolls, -or as a closing song by the whole school. - -=MY OWN AMERICA, I LOVE BUT THEE.= (Worrell.) Here is a song that will -arouse patriotism in the heart of every one who hears it. The music is -so catchy that the children and grown-ups, too, just can’t resist it. -It makes a capital marching song. - -=NOW, AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU CAME?= (Guptill-Weaver.) This is a closing -song which is quite out of the ordinary. There is humor in every line. -The music is lively. Your audience will not soon forget this spicy song -for it will get many an unexpected laugh. The motions which accompany -this song make it doubly effective. For any occasion and for any number -of children. - -=WE ARE CREEPY LITTLE SCARECROWS.= (Guptill-Weaver.) A weird, -fascinating action song. You can’t go wrong with this song. There are -four verses and chorus. Complete directions accompany this song so that -it may be featured as a song and drill, if desired. For any occasion -and for any number of children. - -=WE’VE JUST ARRIVED FROM BASHFUL TOWN.= (Worrell.) This song will bring -memories to the listeners of their own bashful school days. They will -recall just how “scared” they were when asked to sing or play or speak. -The words are unusually clever. The music is decidedly melodious. It -makes a capital welcome song or it may be sung at any time on any -program with assured success. - -=WE HOPE YOU’VE BROUGHT YOUR SMILES ALONG.= (Worrell.) A welcome song -that will at once put the audience in a joyous frame of mind and create -a happy impression that will mean half the success of your entire -program. Words, bright and inspiring. Music, catchy. A sure hit for -your entertainment. - -=WE’LL NOW HAVE TO SAY GOOD-BYE.= (Worrell.) This beautiful song has -snap and go that will appeal alike to visitors and singers. It is just -the song to send your audience home with happy memories of the occasion. - - - Paine Publishing Company Dayton, Ohio - - - - - Snowbound for - Christmas - - - BY - EDNA I. MACKENZIE - - - PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY - DAYTON, OHIO - - - - -CHARACTERS - - - MA SIMPSON. - PA SIMPSON. - MINERVA, Oldest Daughter. - SAM, Oldest Son. - BILL }The In Between’s. - JENNIE, } - BOBBY } - BETTY, }Twins - - -COSTUMES - -_Act I_ - -DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS - - PA SIMPSON, Overalls and Work Shirt. - MA SIMPSON, Gingham Dress and Apron. - MINERVA, Red Waist and Blue Skirt. - SAM } - BILL,} Overalls. - BOBBY, Torn Blouse and Good Trousers. - JENNIE, Old Dress. - BETTY, Old Dress. - - -_Act II_ - -CHRISTMAS MORNING - - Girls in Flannelette Night Dresses and Bed-Room Slippers. - Boys in Pajamas. - Pa in Bathrobe and Ma in Wrapper. - - Time of Playing—About Twenty-five Minutes. - - - Copyright, 1921, by Paine Publishing Company - - - - -Snowbound for Christmas - - - - -_Act I_ - -_Scene._—_A living room in the Simpson farmhouse. Toys, books, etc., -are strewn around untidily. Children play with these when not talking. -Doors Left and Right._ - -_The curtain rises on Ma Simpson knitting by table in Centre, and Pa -Simpson reading the newspaper._ - -_Enter Sam, covered with snow_ - -SAM—It’s still snowin’, Ma. - -MA (_not looking up_)—Yes, Sam. - -SAM—It’s been snowin’ for three days, Ma. - -MA—Yes, Sam. - -SAM—And tomorrow’s Christmas, Ma. - -MA—Yes, Sam. - -PA (_throws down paper_)—Do you suppose we don’t know that it’s -snowing, and that it’s been snowing for three days and tomorrow’s -Christmas. Can’t you tell us something new? - -SAM—But, Pa, how are we going to get to town to buy our Christmas -presents and things? - -PA (_gruffly_)—We can’t go and that’s all about it. The horses couldn’t -plow half a rod through these snowdrifts. - -SAM—But whatever are we going to do for Christmas? - -MA (_shaking her head_)—I guess we will have to do without Christmas -this year. - -_Minerva enters_ - -MINERVA—Do without Christmas! Oh, Ma! - -MA (_brushing away tears_)—I’m sorry Minerva, but with the twins down -with the grippe last week and it snowing so hard this week we couldn’t -get to town and—and (_puts apron to eye_). I feel every bit as bad -as you youngsters. I’ve always prided myself on giving you a happy -Christmas, and to think that I haven’t a thing ready this year. Oh, you -poor, poor children (_cries_). - -PA—Now, see what you’ve done. Run away children and stop pesterin’ your -Ma. - -MINERVA (_kissing Ma_)—Never mind, Ma. We know it couldn’t be helped. -We can do one year without Christmas, can’t we, Sam? - -SAM (_patting Ma awkwardly_)—Of course. Don’t you worry about us kids, -Ma. We’ll get along. - -MA—Bless your dear, kind hearts. But the little ones, the twins, how -can I tell them that Santa can’t come this year? - -PA—Those kids have got enough toys as it is to last them a life time. -Look at this room. You’d think a hurricane had struck it. - -MA—I know, I know. But they’ve been stuck in the house so long that -they’re bound to get their play things around. It’s not the toys they -need, but to tell them Santa won’t be here. Oh, I can’t! I can’t! - -MINERVA—Perhaps, Ma, we older ones could make them some presents. I -could make a dandy nigger doll out of a bottle and a black stocking. -Sara Martin showed me how to do it. - -SAM—-I’ll go and get my tools right away and make a cradle for the doll. - -MINERVA—And I’ll give Jennie that ring that’s got too small for me. - -SAM—I’ll paint my old sled over for Bobby and give Bill my hockey stick. - -PA—That’s the idea! You kids have got good heads on you. - -SAM—Come on, Minerva, let’s get busy. - -_Exit Minerva and Sam_ - -MA—The dear children! There’s not a woman living has better children -than we have. - -PA (_blowing nose_)—You’re right there. I guess they take after their -ma. - -MA—How you do talk! And to think that my own children have to teach -their ma a lesson. Here am I moping away because I hadn’t anything -ready when I should be hunting up and planning for them. What a silly -old goose I’m getting to be (_jumps up_). I’ll— - -PA—Now, Ma, don’t go and call yourself names. You’re simply tired out -working yourself to death for these youngsters and— - -MA—There’s that old Persian Lamb coat I got before I was married. I’ll -make muffs and capes out of it for Jennie and Betty. It’s moth-eaten in -spots, but there’s plenty good fur left and Minerva can help me make -them. And—and—for Minerva I’ll (_rubs head_) oh, I know, I’ll make -Minerva a party dress out of my white silk wedding dress. I ain’t never -worn it much, and it’s almost as good as new. - -PA—Not your wedding dress! You ain’t goin’ to cut that up! - -MA—Why ain’t I? Laws-a-me, I can’t wear it anymore. It wouldn’t come -within five inches of meeting round the waist, and it’s too old -fashioned for Minerva to wear the way it is. - -PA—But your wedding dress, the dress you wore when we two was made -one, and you lookin’ like an angel straight out of heaven in it. Oh, I -couldn’t bear to see that cut up. - -MA—Now, Pa, don’t you go and talk nonsense. I didn’t know you had that -much sentiment in you. To tell the truth I hate to have it cut up -myself, but when it comes to making that dear child happy I’d give her -my head on a charger if it would do her any good. - -PA—Who’s talkin’ nonsense now? Well, since you’ve got the girls fixed -up I guess I’ll have to think up something for the boys. Blest if I -know what I can give them (_scratches head_). - -MA—It’s awful hard planning for boys. They ain’t so easy pleased as -girls with fixed over things. They’re more for animals and such like. - -PA—There you’ve got it, Ma! I’ll give Sam that little black colt -all for his own. He’s just crazy about it and Bill—let’s see—what -can I give—Oh yes, there’s that Jersey heifer that’s goin’ to be a -sure-enough winner some day—I’ll give him that. Then there’s Bobby, -what in the dickens can I give that tyke. He’s too young— - -MA (_at door_)—Hush, I hear him coming. - - _Bobby rushes in_ - -BOBBY—Oh, Ma, what do you think! I found a dozen eggs hid away in the -hay-mow. - -MA—Why Bobby, whatever are you doing with your Sunday trousers on? - -PA—How’d you happen to find the eggs? - -BOBBY—I was jumpin’ off the beam into the hay and I landed right on top -of them. Didn’t know they was there. Gee, there was some spill. I guess -them eggs was layed last summer, they smelt like it (_pause_). That’s -why I got my Sunday trousers on, Ma. - -MA—Well, run along now and see that you don’t get any more eggs for if -you spoil them trousers you go to bed. You ain’t got any others. - -BOBBY—All right, Ma. I only wished we had a swing in the barn like Pete -Miller’s. Yuh kin go clean to the roof in it. It beats jumpin’ in the -hay all holler (_runs out_). - -PA—The very thing! I’ll put a swing up in the barn for Bobby. I’ll give -him a big bag of butternuts to crack to keep him out of the way ’till I -git it up. - -MA—And I’ll get Minerva to make taffy to put the nuts in (_exit Pa and -Ma_). - - _Enter Minerva with bottle and stocking, Sam with chest of - tools and boards_ - -MINERVA—I’m so glad I thought of this. It will be different from any -doll she’s ever had (_puts stocking on bottle_). I’ll sew on beads for -eyes with white paper pasted on for whites and red for a mouth and— - -SAM (_sawing wood_)—This will be some cradle when I get done, you bet -your life. - -MINERVA (_severely_)—It’s sure awful, the slang you use. You should cut -it out. - -SAM (_jeeringly_)—I should cut it out, eh! Cut it out isn’t slang! Oh -my stars! (_turns handspring_). Say, Sis, don’t you know that people -in stone houses shouldn’t throw glass? - -MINERVA—No, I don’t, and if I were you I wouldn’t start quoting until I -could get it right. - -BOBBY (_outside_)—I did hear Santa’s reindeer. I know I did. - -MINERVA (_jumping up_)—Here’s the twins. Hide your stuff quick -(_scramble_). - - _Enter Bobby and Betty_ - -_Betty has black sticking-plaster over front teeth to hide them._ - -BETTY—Aw, you didn’t (_runs to Minerva_). Thanta only cometh at night, -don’t ee, Nerva? - -MINERVA (_lifting her on her knee_)—Yes, dear, when you’re fast asleep -in— - -BOBBY—But I did hear him, I heard the bells jingle in the roof. - -MINERVA—Perhaps he’s around seeing if you’re good children and don’t -quarrel. You know he doesn’t give presents to bad children. - -BETTY—Uths hathn’t fighted for two days. Uths been awful good, hathn’t -uth, Bobby? - -BOBBY—Yep, but if Christmas doesn’t hurry up and come I’ll bust, I know -I will. - - _Enter Bill and Jennie_ - -BILL—Sam, what do you know, Pa says we can’t get into town. How are we -going to buy— - -SAM (_shakes hand in warning behind twin’s backs_)—See here Bill, I—I— - -BILL—Say, what’s the matter with you, Sam? Have you got the palsy? - -SAM (_pulling him to front_)—No, but I wish you had. Ain’t you got any -sense? Do you want the kids to quit believin’ in Santa? - -BILL—No, but how— - -JENNIE (_to Minerva_)—Ain’t we goin’ to get any Christmas presents, -Nervy? - -MINERVA—Of course we are, dear. - -JENNIE—But where are we going to get them? - -BETTY—From Thanta, of courth. Where elth could you get them? - -MINERVA—Of course. He’s never failed us yet and I guess he isn’t going -to this Christmas either. Twinnies, have you all the pop-corn strings -made for the tree? - -BOBBY—No, let’s go to the kitchen and finish them, Betty (_exit twins_). - -JENNY—But Nervy, where are we goin’ to git them? - -BILL—Yes, where? Pa and Ma never got to town and— - -MINERVA—By making them for each other. - -BILL and JENNIE—By making them! - -SAM—Yes, why not? (_gets tools, etc._). Sis and I are making our -presents. - -BILL—What are you makin’? - -SAM—Wouldn’t you like to know, now? - -JENNIE—But, Nervy, made things won’t be real Christmas presents -(_cries_). And I wanted a book, and a pencil box and a ring and—and—a -muff and—and— - -MINERVA (_fiercely_)—Now see here, Jennie. You stop crying this -minute, Ma’s feeling dreadful bad as it is because she can’t give us a -real-to-goodness Christmas without store presents— - -BILL (_shaking her_)—Aw, shut up, Jennie. I guess one Christmas -without regular presents won’t kill us. And there will be heaps of fun -makin’ them and keepin’ secrets and things. I bet I kin make Bobby the -dandiest top you ever saw. - -JENNIE (_brightening_)—And I’ll make a picture book for Betty. - -MINERVA—You’re talking now. They’ll be tickled to pieces with them. - -MA (_outside_)—Minerva, where are you? - -PA (_outside_)—Sam, come here a minute. - -MINERVA—There’s Ma calling me! (_exit_). - -SAM—There’s Pa calling me! (_exit_). - -JENNIE—Say, Bill, I’ve got something thought out for Nervy too. - -BILL—What? - -JENNIE—Well, you know that piece of green silk Aunt Mary gave me for a -doll’s dress? I’m going to make a bag for Nervy to carry her crochet in -and put featherstitching on it with the purple sil—silk—silklene I’ve -got. - -BILL—Aw shucks, you haven’t time. - -JENNIE—I have, too, it just takes a few minutes. Boys don’t know -nothin’ about sewin’. - -BILL—Aw, sewin’. Hockey beats that all to pieces. What kin I give -Sam? (_picks up magazine_). Oh, I know, I’ll cut up the ads in -our old magazine and glue them on pasteboard. They’ll make swell -picture-puzzles. - -JENNIE—Oh goody! I just love picture-puzzles. - -BILL—I ain’t makin’ them for you, they’re for Sam, I told you. - -JENNIE—Well, he’ll let me play with them. He ain’t stingy like some -people I know. - -BILL—Hush, here’s Sam now. - - _Enter Sam and Minerva_ - -MINERVA—Sam and I have thought of presents for everybody but Ma and Pa. -What can we give them, I wonder. - -SAM—Have you kids anything for them? - -BILL and JENNIE—No. - -JENNIE—What can we give them? - -MINERVA—I don’t know. There isn’t time to make much and I’ve promised -to help her make the f— (_puts hand on mouth_). - -JENNIE—Make what? - -MINERVA—Make some taffy. Bobby’s cracking nuts for it. - -BILL (_turning somersault_)—Oh, I’ve got an idea. - -ALL—What is it? - -BILL—I know what’ll please them more’n anything. - -JENNIE—For goodness sake, Bill, get up and tell us. Don’t keep us in -suspenders. - -BILL—Well, I read a story once where a lot of kids instead of givin’ -their pa and ma presents, wrote notes promisin’ to do the chores and -things they hated most for a whole year without bein’ told and— - -MINERVA—Oh, that’s a splendid idea! - -SAM—It is if we can stick to it. - -JENNIE—I don’t believe none of us could—not for a whole year. - -MINERVA—We can if we love them enough to really try. Will you do it? - -SAM—All right, I’m game. - -BILL—So am I. - -JENNIE—I’ll—has it got to be what you hate the very worst? - -BILL—Of course, it ain’t no good to promise something easy. Anyone -could do that. - -MINERVA—And it will show whether you love them enough to sac-to -sacer-sacerfice ourselves for them. - -JENNIE—I, guess I can do it. Anyway I’ll try awful hard. - -MINERVA—I know you will, Jennie. I’ll go and call the twins. - -SAM—Do you think we had better let them in on it. - -MINERVA—Why, of course, Pa and Ma would be so pleased. - -BILL—That settles it. (_calls_) Bobby! Betty! Jennie, hunt up some -paper and pencils. - - _Enter Twins_ - -TWINS—What do you want? - -JENNIE—We’re talking about the Christmas present we’re going to give Ma -and Pa and— - -BETTY—Why, ithn’t Thanta goin’ to give them any prethents? - -MINERVA—No, dear, Santa just brings presents to children. Would you -like to do something that will please Pa and Ma very much? - -BETTY—Yeth, tell uth what it ith. - -MINERVA—We are all going to promise to do something we hate doing for a -whole year without being told. - -BOBBY—That ain’t no present. - -SAM—Oh, yes, it is the very best kind. - -BOBBY—But you can’t put a pwomise on a Christmas tree. - -BILL—We put notes on instead. Will you do it? - -BOBBY—I guess so. I like doin’ everything I have to, so it won’t be -hard for me to pwomise. - -JENNIE—Oh, you little lilac. What a fib. - -BOBBY—It ain’t then. - -JENNIE—It is too. I could tell you half a dozen things you make a fuss -about. Here’s paper and pencils (_distributes them_). - -MINERVA—Now let’s get around the table and write our notes. I’ll write -yours for you Betty. - -BETTY—No. I’ll wite it mythelf. - -JENNIE—You can’t write nothin’ anyone could read. - -BETTY—I can print then, ith’s eathier to read. - -BOBBY—So can I. You can spell the hard words for me, Sam. - -MINERVA—You didn’t give me a pencil, Jennie. - -JENNIE—There wasn’t enough to go around. Bill, see if you have one in -your pocket. - -BILL—All right (_empties pocket full of truck, brings out dead mouse -and pencil at last. Girls scream. Minerva jumps on chair_). - -MINERVA—Oh Bill, you nasty boy. - -BILL (_laughs_)—Girls are the beatenest. Afraid of a dead mouse! (_puts -things back in pocket_). - -SAM—Let’s get down to business. We haven’t any time to waste. - -MINERVA—I don’t know which I hate doing worse, washing dishes or -dusting (_bites pencil_). - -JENNIE—I wouldn’t bite that pencil if I was you. It’s been rubbin’ up -against that dead mouse. - -MINERVA (_slipping it down_)—Ugh! I’ll not touch it. I’ll use yours -when you’re through. - -BOBBY—I wish you’d keep quiet so that I could think up something to -pwomise. I don’t know nothin’ I hate doin’. - -JENNIE—Oh, Bobby, look at your ears, they’re— - -BOBBY—I can’t. My eyes ain’t in the back of my head. - -JENNIE—You didn’t wash behind them this morning. - -BOBBY (_jumping around_)—I know, I know, I’ll pwomise to— - -SAM—Let’s not tell each other what we’re goin’ to promise. There’ll be -more fun reading the notes tomorrow. - -BETTY—Notes don’t make much thow on a Chwismas tree. - -JENNIE (_claps hands_)—I’ve got it! I’ve got it! I’ve got it! - -BILL—What, a lunatic germ? - -JENNIE—Let’s put a simpleton of what we’re going to promise on the tree. - -BILL—A simpleton, what’ that? - -JENNIE—Why a sign, of course. You see if Nervy hates dusting, she can -put a dust rag on the tree and make Pa and Ma guess what it stands for. - -MINERVA—Symbol! That’s what she means (_laughs_). A simpleton! Oh, -Jennie, that’s what you are. - -JENNIE—I ain’t then. They’re the same thing. - -MINERVA—The same thing, oh— - -SAM (_excitedly_)—By gimminy, Jen, that’s the bulliest stunt yet. - -BILL—Oh, boys, it will make the jolliest fun we’ve ever gotten out of a -tree in all our lives. Let’s do it. - -ALL—Yes, yes, let’s do it. - -_Curtain goes down on children writing in various positions, Bobby wags -tongue, Betty wiggles whole body, etc._ - - - - -_Act II_ - -_Scene._—_The Simpson living-room, tidied table pushed back and -Christmas tree decorated with home-made trimmings and presents tied in -various ludicrous parcels._ - - _Enter Minerva carrying dishpan with note attached._ - -MINERVA—I go first because I’m the oldest. - -JENNIE (_outside_)—That ain’t no fair. - -MINERVA (_finger to lips_)—Hush, you don’t want to wake Ma. She didn’t -come to bed until near morning (_puts dishpan under tree_). There, -that’s a promise it’ll be mighty hard to keep for if there’s anything -under the sun I hate doing it’s washing dishes. Three times a day and -there’s 365 days in the year, that washes, let me see—three times five -is fifteen, three times six is eighteen, and one to carry is nineteen, -and three times three is nine and one’s ten. Good gracious, over a -thousand times a year and eight in the family means eight plates, eight -cups, eight—a million dishes! Oh dear, I wish our family was smaller. - - _Enter Sam with armful of wood_ - -SAM—It takes a good sight longer for you to put a dishpan down than -for me to drop this wood (_slams it down_). There’s the first load -delivered on the contract. Gee, I wish there was a gaswell on our farm. -Perhaps I could persuade Ma to use a coal-oil stove. - - _Enter Jennie with music roll_ - -JENNIE—Oh dear, how I hate practising, but Ma says she’s bound she’ll -make a musicale out of me. Her chance is better now than it ever was -before (_puts it on tree_). - -SAM—Aw, Jen, why didn’t you choose something quiet? Do you want -to drive us all insane listening to you running up and down those -everlasting scales? - -JENNIE—It’s your own fault. You said we had to promise what we hate -doin’ most and I’m sure— - -MINERVA—I must get the twins up. - - _Enter Bill with book-bag_ - -BILL—I had an awful hunt for this bag. Well, I know one person who’ll -be mighty glad I made this promise. - -SAM and JENNIE—Who? - -BILL—The school-marm. And the strap will be gitten’ a rest, too, I’m -thinkin’. Gee, when I grow up and git in for president I’m goin’ to -have every school-marm in the States put in jail who gives homework -(_puts bag down_). - - _Enter Bobby carrying large bar of soap and Betty with an - alarm clock_ - -BOBBY—You’ll not say I didn’t wash behind my ears again, Jennie. I’m -goin’ to wash them every mornin’ the water isn’t froze in the pitcher. - -BETTY—And you can’t call me theepy-head neither cos I’m goin’ to get up -first time I’m called every mornin’ ’cept Saturday (_Minerva fastens -clock on tree. Alarm goes off_). - -MINERVA—There, that will waken Pa and Ma. - -BOBBY—Oh, oh, oh, look at all them presents. Let me see what are mine -(_goes to tree and examines parcels_). - -SAM (_drags him away_)—Here, Bobby, no peekin’ ’til Pa and Ma come. - - _Enter Pa and Ma_ - -PA—Laws-a-me, children, what are you doin’ out of bed and— - -MA—And in your nighties, too. You’ll catch your death of cold. - -PA—Yes, and wakin’—well, I swan, what are you doin’ with a woodpile -under the tree? - -MA—And a dishpan and book-bag and and— - -ALL—They’re your Christmas presents! - -PA and MA—Our Christmas presents! - -SAM (_putting note in Pa’s hand_)—Read and see. - -PA (_reads_)—“I promise to fill up the wood box every morning before -school. Your lovin’ son, Sam.” Well now if that ain’t an original -Christmas-box and a mighty good one, too. - -MINERVA—Here’s mine, Ma (_hands the note_). - -MA (_reads_)— - - “Dear Ma, you need not ever fear - That the dishes won’t be done. - For I’ll wash them throughout the year - And make believe it’s fun.” - -You dear child, give me a kiss. And to think you hate doin’ dishes so. -This is what I call a noble sacrifice. - -MINERVA—Oh Ma, I’m so glad. - -BILL (_gives book-bag and note to Pa_)—See what a smart boy I’m goin’ -to turn into! - -PA (_reads_)—“To MA and PA. I bet you won’t believe me, but I’m goin’ -to get my homework up every night ’cept Friday as good as I can.—Bill.” -That’s the way to talk, BILL. We’ll all be proud of you some day. - -JENNIE—Read mine, Ma, read mine. - -MA (_reads_)—“To whom it may conserve. I, Jennie Simpson, do promise to -practice my music lessons faithlessly and preservingly every time Ma -says I must. I hope she’ll be mercyfill.” - -MA—I will, Jennie, I promise. Bless your dear heart. - -BOBBY (_takes his off tree_)—Here’s mine! Here’s mine! (_gives it to -Pa_). - -PA—Bless my soul! A cake of soap! (_reads_) “I’ll always keep behind my -ears clean where it shows.—Bobby.” - -BETTY—And mine, and mine (_gives to Ma_). - -MA—Is that what I heard? (_reads_) I—I—Oh, I haven’t my glasses. You -read it, BETTY. - -BETTY—“I pwomith to git up when I’m called if I’m not too theepy” (_all -laugh_). - -BOBBY—That ain’t no pwomise. - -PA—Yes it is. And now children, you’ve made your Ma and me happier than -we’ve ever been in our lives. - -MA—Indeed you have. This shows us how much you love us better’n the -costliest gifts in the world could have done. - -BOBBY—Can’t we get our presents, now? - -ALL—Yes, yes (_every one scrambles for presents at once and open them -before audience, exclaiming together_). - -MINERVA—A dress, a lovely party dress. Oh! Oh! - -JENNIE and BETTY—Oh the lovely furs (_puts them on_). - -BILL—A hockey-stick. Ain’t it great! - -BOBBY—Look at my sled. - -PA—Now, boys as soon as you get dressed we’ll go out to the barn and -I’ll show you some presents I’ve got for you. - -BOYS—Oh, goody, goody (_Bill and Bobby start for door_). - -SAM—Hold on kids, before we go, let’s give three cheers for the best -Christmas we’ve ever had in all our lives. - -ALL—Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah! - - CURTAIN - - - - -PLAYS, MONOLOGS, Etc. - - -=AS OUR WASHWOMAN SEES IT.= (Edna I. MacKenzie.) Time, 10 minutes. Nora -is seen at the washboard at the home of Mrs. McNeal, where, amidst her -work, she engages in a line of gossip concerning her patrons, that will -make a hit with any audience. 25 cents. - -=ASK OUIJA.= (Edna I. MacKenzie.) Time, 8 minutes. A present-day girl -illustrates to her friends the wonders of the Ouija board. Her comments -on the mysteries of this present-day fad as she consults Ouija will -delight any audience. 25 cents. - -=COONTOWN TROUBLES.= (Bugbee-Berg.) A lively black-face song given by -Josephus Johnsing, Uncle Rastus and other Coontown folks. 35 cents. - -=THE GREAT CHICKEN STEALING CASE OF EBENEZER COUNTY.= (Walter -Richardson.) A negro mock trial for 9 males, 2 females and jurors. -Time, 35 minutes. Any ordinary room easily arranged. From start to -finish this trial is ludicrous to the extreme and will bring roars of -laughter from the audience. 25 cents. - -=THE GREAT WHISKEY-STEALING CASE OF RUMBOLD VS. RYEBOLD.= (Walter -Richardson.) A mock trial for 11 males and jury. The fun increases as -the trial proceeds, and reaches a climax when the jury decides who -stole the whiskey. 25 cents. - -=HERE’S TO THE LAND OF THE STARS AND THE STRIPES.= (Bugbee-Worrell.) -Open your minstrel with this rousing patriotic song. Sheet music. 35 -cents. - -=THE KINK IN KIZZIE’S WEDDING.= (Mary Bonham.) Time, 20 minutes. For 7 -males and 5 females. A colored wedding that will convulse any audience -with laughter. Said to be the funniest mock wedding ever produced. 25 -cents. - -=SHE SAYS SHE STUDIES.= A monologue. (Edna I. MacKenzie.) A sentimental -high-school girl seated with her books preparing the next day’s -lessons, in a highly original and entertaining manner, expresses her -views on the merits of her various studies and her unbiased opinion of -her teachers, as she proceeds from book to book in the order of her -recitation; but when she has finished, you will agree that she is very -much more of an entertainer than a student. 25 cents. - -=SUSAN GETS READY FOR CHURCH.= (Edna I. MacKenzie.) Time, 10 minutes. -It is time for church and Susan, at her toilet, is excitedly calling -for missing articles and her rapid line of gossip about her friends and -of certain church activities will bring many a laugh. 25 cents. - -=THAT AWFUL LETTER.= A comedy of unusual merit, in one act. (Edna I. -MacKenzie.) For five girls. Time, 30 minutes. Recommended for high -schools, societies and churches. Elizabeth Norton, an accomplished -college girl from the country, has been reluctantly and rudely invited -to visit a city cousin, Margaret Neilson, whom she has never seen. -Finding she is expected to be gawky and uneducated, Elizabeth acts the -part perfectly. Developments follow thick and fast amid flashes of wit, -humor and satire from Elizabeth, who at last reveals her real self. -Margaret’s humiliation is complete and there is a happy ending. All the -characters are good. The country cousin is a star. 25 cents. - -=THE UNEXPECTED GUEST.= A one-act comedy. (Edna I. MacKenzie.) Six -females. Time, 45 minutes. The unexpected arrival of an eccentric aunt -throws a family into a state of excitement and dismay, but before the -play is over the unwelcome aunt has endeared herself to her relatives -in quite an unexpected manner. Funny situations throughout. 25 cents. - - - Paine Publishing Company Dayton, Ohio - - - - -CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS - - -=CHRISTMAS AT PUNKIN HOLLER.= (Elizabeth F. Guptill.) One of the most -popular Christmas plays published, that abounds in clean, wholesome -fun from beginning to end. It depicts the trials of the teacher of an -old-fashioned “deestric school” in conducting the last rehearsal for -the Christmas Entertainment. Children and grown-ups will be delighted -with CHRISTMAS AT PUNKIN HOLLER. 25c. - -=CHRISTMAS AT McCARTHY’S.= (Elisabeth F. Guptill.) A Christmas play for -young folks and children that is brimful of fun from start to close and -is interspersed with the gentlest pathos. All the characters are good. -Easy to produce. No special scenery or costumes. No Santa Claus. Can be -played in any schoolroom. 25c. - -=CHRISTMAS SPEAKIN’ AT SKAGGS’S SKULE.= (Marie Irish.) Just published. -Humorous entertainment for six boys and eight girls, including Ole, the -Swede; Rastus, the negro; bashful Bill; Jeremiah Judkins, the skule -clerk; Mis’ Skaggs and Mis’ Hill, the mothers who “help out;” fat -little sister; Matildy and Florildy, the twins; Sam who st-t-tut-ters; -Tiny, and Miss Emmeline Elkins, the teacher. The speech by the skule -clerk and the fake Santy Claus are features. 25c. - -=CHRISTMAS DIALOGUES.= (Cecil J. Richmond.) Every dialogue in this -book is decidedly to the point and easy to prepare. They will delight -both young and old. The book contains the following: Is There a Santa -Clause? (2 small children, Santa Claus and chorus); Herbert’s Discovery -(2 boys); The Christmas Dinner (2 little girls, 1 larger girl, and -2 boys); Playing Santa Claus (1 small and 2 larger boys); A Double -Christmas Gift (2 small girls, 2 larger girls, and 3 boys). Many -customers have told us that the last named dialogue Is worth the price -of the book. 25 cents. - -=EVERGREEN AND HOLLY—SONG AND DRILL.= (Elizabeth F. Guptill.) A drill -for any even number of boys and girls, or all girls. The girls carry -garlands of evergreen while the boys carry wreaths of the same. After a -spectacular drill and fancy march they all sing a beautiful Christmas -song, which accompanies the drill. Easy to produce and decidedly novel. -25 cents. - -=GOOD-BYE, CHRISTMAS GROUCHES.= (Irish-Lyman.) A jolly Christmas song -for any number of boys and girls. It abounds with Christmas cheer and -many pleasant surprises. Full of action. Sheet music. This popular song -will put “pep” in your Christmas entertainment and will furnish your -audience a rare treat. 35 cents. - -=POINSETTIA DRILL.= (Marie Irish.) A drill for 12 or more girls -carrying poinsettias. Given to the music of a lively march, -interspersed with verses to the tune of the song. “Comin’ Through the -Rye.” Several diagrams make clear the following of the directions. One -of the most beautiful Christmas drills published. 25 cents. - -=SANTA CLAUS IS COMING.= (Irish-Garster.) Song for little folks. Easy -words and simple action. A pleasing little song that the children will -enjoy giving and others will enjoy hearing, because of its merry humor. -Sheet music. 35 cents. - -=STARS OF BETHLEHEM.= (Irish-Leyman.) A beautiful song of the Christ -Child for either solo or chorus. The music is sweet and perfectly -suited to the beautiful words. A delightful number for children or -adults. Sheet music. 35 cents. - -=SNOWBOUND FOR CHRISTMAS.= (Edna I. MacKenzie.) For 4 boys and 4 girls. -Time, 25 minutes. The roads being blocked by a recent snowstorm, -the Simpson family has not been able to get to town to do their -Christmas shopping. After considerable lamenting by the children over -their disappointment, Ma Simpson, Pa Simpson, and the older children -determine upon home-made presents, which results in a most pleasant -surprise. 25 cents. - -=TOPSY TURVY CHRISTMAS, A.= (Elizabeth F. Guptill.) A decidedly -humorous Christmas play for any number of children from six to twelve -years old. The children are tired of “minding” and of everything -being “just so,” so they start to find a place where things will be -different. There is a pleasing surprise for the audience at every turn -of the play. 25 cents. - - - Paine Publishing Company Dayton, Ohio - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Snowbound for Christmas, by Edna I. 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