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Guptill - -Release Date: January 5, 2017 [EBook #53895] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS AT MCCARTHY'S *** - - - - -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_.] - - - Price 25 Cents - - [Illustration] - - - Christmas at - McCarthy’s - - - _GUPTILL_ - - - PAINE PUBLISHING CO. - DAYTON, OHIO - - - - -New Entertainment Songs - -By Edna Randolph Worrell. - - -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 =25= cents each. Five -copies, =$1.00=. - -WE HOPE YOU’VE BROUGHT YOUR SMILES ALONG. 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. - -WE’LL NOW HAVE TO SAY GOOD-BYE. 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. - -WE’VE JUST ARRIVED FROM BASHFUL TOWN. This song will bring memories -to the listeners of their own bashful school days. Words, unusually -clever. Music, decidedly melodious. A capital welcome song, or it may -be sung at any time on the program with assured success. - -MY OWN AMERICA, I LOVE THEE. A song that will bring a thrill of -patriotism to the heart of every one who hears it. The children and -grown-ups just can’t resist the catchy music. It makes a capital -marching song. - -COME AND PARTAKE OF OUR WELCOME CAKE. A merry welcome song and a jolly -one, too. The audience will be immediately curious about the Welcome -Cake, and the children will love to surprise the listeners with the -catchy words. Music, easy and tuneful. - -LULLABY LANE. The music and words blend so beautifully that people will -be humming the appealing strains long after they hear this charming -song. A wonderfully effective closing song, whether sung by the school -or as a solo by a little girl, with a chorus of other little girls with -dolls. - -JOLLY PICKANINNIES. Words by Elizabeth F. Guptill. Music by Edna R. -Worrell. This spicy coon song will bring down the house, especially if -you use the directions for the motions which accompany the music. The -black faces and shining eyes of the pickaninnies will guarantee a hit. -The words are great and the music just right. - -THE LITTLE BIRD’S SECRET. Here is just the song for those two little -folks to sing together. They won’t have to be coaxed to sing it, -especially when they find that the whole school is to whistle the -chorus. This is a decided novelty, and will prove a rare treat to your -audience. - -A GARDEN ROMANCE. This is a dainty little song telling of the romance -and wedding of Marigold and Sweet William. It is just the song for -dainty little girls to sing. - -COME TO THE NURSERY RHYME GARDEN AND PLAY. Here is something different -for the little folks to sing. The Nursery Rhyme Folk are so familiar to -children, it will be no trick for them to remember the words. The music -has a most captivating swing. - - =Paine Publishing Company= =Dayton, Ohio= - - - - - Christmas at McCarthy’s - - - BY - - ELIZABETH F. GUPTILL - - _Author of “Christmas at Punkin Holler,” - “A Topsy Turvy Christmas,” Etc._ - - - [Illustration] - - - Copyright, 1916 - PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY - Dayton, Ohio - - - - -Cast of Characters - - - PATRICK MCCARTHY, the most important man in the “tinement” - BRIDGET MCCARTHY His Wife - MR. OPPERMAN A Jew - MRS. OPPERMAN His Wife - LARS A Swede - MRS. CHLOE WASHINGTON Colored - MRS. FERRARI Italian - MR. STRAUSS Elsie’s father, a German - ELSIE “Tinement” Orphan - JIMMIE The News Boy - PATSY } - KATIE } - POMPEY } - CONNIE } - CLEOPATRA } - MICKEY } Other Children of the “Tinement” - CAESAR } - LUIGI } - CARLOTTA } - HILDA } - TONY } - - - - -Christmas at McCarthy’s - - - - -SCENE I. - - -(_Setting—The sidewalk outside of “Murphy’s Tinement.” Have a couple -of low, wide steps, if possible. The children are gathered on and -around these steps. Use plenty of children—as many as convenient. Small -children from two to six or seven may be used as little brothers and -sisters to those who have the speaking parts. As curtain rises, some -of the children are playing “Button, button,” on the lowest step, and -others are playing “Hop-scotch” at one side. The smallest ones hug -dilapidated dollies, rolled up from rags. One has a small wheel, such -as might have been on a little cart, once. Enter Jimmy and Elsie—hurry -along to group._) - -KATIE—Sold out so soon? - -JIMMY—Ivery blissid paper av thim. Sure, ’twas the swate face of Ilsie -did it. I do be a thinkin’. An’ ivery sowl that bought a paper, almost, -axed quistions about her. Guess they thought she was a high-born leddy, -and me a stealthy, crapy kidnapper. Shure, an’ she got a foine chanst -to be a leddy, and she wouldn’t take it, at all, at all! Think av that, -now! - -CONNIE—How could she get a chanst to be a leddy, when she’s jist a bit -av a colleen? - -CLEOPATRA—Ah reck’n he means to be quality. Did some quality lady -wanter stole yer, honey chile? - -ELSIE—Lady wanted to take me ’way fum Jimmy. She said, fere was mine -mutter dat her let me does papers to sell? And I wasn’t selling dose -papers at all! Jimmy was selling ’em. And I telled her mine mutter was -to Himmel gone, and mine fader was all loss, and— - -JIMMY—And she wanted to take her home to be her little gel, ’n whin I -said we couldn’t spare the sunny face av her, she tried to wheedle her -away! Bad ’cess to her! - -ELSIE—And she said I wasn’t Jimmy’s little sister at all, she did! - -JIMMY—And she axed, she did, as purry as a cat, could we afford to kape -a growin’ choild that didn’t belong to us, and I says to her, says I, -“Ilsie belongs to the whole tinement, that she does!” And she axed how -that was, and I told her how Mrs. Ferrari slapes her, and Mrs. Omstrom -ates her, and Aunt Bridget washes her, and Mrs. Washington minds her, -and Mr. Opperman buys her bit clothes, and you girls kape her tidy, and -I buy her hair ribbins, and she laughed, and called her a communerty -orphin. - -ELSIE—And I telled her I wasn’t no orfing, I was Jimmy’s little sister, -and she laughed some more, and she said I was pretty, and she gaved me -this. (_shows quarter._) - -MICKY—Begorra, what a lot av money! It’s a capitalist ye’ll be afther -being, like the Rocky feller. - -JIMMY—And thin, bedad, she began to wheedle, and she promised her foine -drisses, and a babby doll, and a cab to wheel it in, and iverything ye -could think about, and more, too, begorry. And thin if she didn’t up -and offer her a Christmas tree! - -KATIE—A Christmas tree! Why didn’t she offer her the earth, with a -noice little pick fince around it? And ye wouldn’t lave us for a -Christmas tree, Elsie darlint? - -ELSIE—“No,” I said, “Jimmy will buy me a Christmas tree a’reddy.” - -MICKEY—Like fun he will! Does she think Jimmy’s a millionair? - -JIMMY—And she asked where did we live, and I said, “over at the South -side,” says I, and I mutters “over the lift” to mesilf and says she, -“I’m a coming to see yer mother,” she says. And says I, wid the face av -me as sober as a praste, “Me mither’s me ant, for the rale mither av -me’s over in Ould Oirland in a churchyard, where she’s been iver since -jist before I was born, or jist afther, I forgit which, its so long -ago.” - -ELSIE—And she laughed, and said she was going to haf her pretty baby, -yet a’retty, but I won’t with that lady go. I will stay with my Jimmy. -Jimmy won’t let her get me. - -JIMMY—Don’t worry the golden braids av yer, Ilsie love. I gave her -shtrate way out at the South side that isn’t there at all, at all, and -bedad, she’ll hunt awhile before she finds that addriss, and whin she -does, it’ll be the wrong one. - -ELSIE—(_confidently_) And Jimmy will buy me a Christmas, won’t you, -Jimmy? - -JIMMY—Maybe, Ilsie love, a little one. - -ELSIE—No, a big one, with a big, big tree. - -CAESAR—Dar don’t no trees grow in de city, Ailsie honey, not cut down -ones. - -ELSIE—They grow the stores in. Mine fader always did buy me one. - -LUIGI—Maybe we mighta, all togetta, buy a leedla one. I could de shoesa -polish, and get some mon’. - -CAESAR—An’ I kin hold de gemman’s hosses, ’n run arrantses. - -MICKY—Let’s all try hard and see if we can’t get Elsie a little -Christmas tree. - -ELSIE—I don’t a little Christmas want. I wants a big Christmas and a -big tree, like mine fader always did me get. - -KATIE—But you see, Elsie, we’re all poor folks, and— - -ELSIE—Jimmy will buy me a Christmas—a big Christmas, and a big tree. I -know he will. - -MICKY—Gee, Jimmy! It’s up to you, all right. - -MR. OPPERMAN—(_entering_) Vot vos up to Chimmy? - -CAESAR—Ter cunjur up a big Christmas tree fo’ Ailsie. She done boun’ -ter have one. - -ELSIE—Mine fader did get me one always, Mr. Opperman. - -OPPERMAN—Vell, vell, ve never did yet have van Christmas here yet -a’retty, but meppe ve might half von leedle von, if ve all chip in -togedder. Be patient a’retty, mine leedle fraulein, and ve’ll see vot -ve’ll see! - -ELSIE—But I don’t want one little tree, I want one big one like mine -fader always did me get. Jimmy will buy me one. I know he will. I’m -Jimmy’s little sister. He did buy for me these hair ribbons of the blue -color. - -CAESAR—You’ll half ter do it, Jimmy, whedder or no, as de preachah say. - -ELSIE—You know, Mr. Opperman. You one German was, too. You know the -German kinder do always one big Christmas tree have. Mustn’t I have one? - -OPPERMAN—Vell, vell, leedle Madchen, I vos sure von Cherman, but I vos -von Cherman Chew a’retty. Der Chews no Christmas do keep, nor drees. - -ELSIE—(_beginning to cry_) I must have one big Christmas tree. I must. -And no one wants me my tree to have but Jimmy. - -JIMMY—There, there, Ilsie, don’t spoil the swate eyes av yez wid -cryin’, ans we’ll think up a way somehow. (_Mrs. McCarthy, Mrs. -Ferrari, Mrs. Omstrom, and Mrs. Washington come out and seat themselves -on the steps._) - -CHLOE—(_taking Elsie into her lap_) What dey bin a doin’ to mammy -Chloe’s li’l white lambie? - -BRIDGET—Which av ye spalpeens hov bin afther makin’ the wee colleen -wape, now? Be shame to yez, who iver yez are! - -ELSIE—They don’t want me my Christmas to have a’retty. - -BRIDGET—And who’s bin afther puttin’ Christmas into the hid av her? -You, Jim, I’ll bet a sixpince. Yez do spile the choild, most awful. - -JIMMY—’Twasn’t me, nather. ’Twas a foine leddy who wanted to adopt her, -av yez plaze, or av yez don’t plaze, either. - -CHLOE—’Dopt her? Den she’d be quality, like she ottah be, but ole mammy -Chloe would miss her li’l white missy. - -BRIDGET—Bedad, an’ she can’t have her, thin. She’s the baby of all -Murphy’s tinement, and betwane us we’ll get up a Christmas for her if -she’s thot set on it. I kin take in an ixtry wash or two, mebbe. Sure -me own little spalpeens have niver had a Christmas yit, nor Jimsie, -naythur. - -JIMMY—I don’t need any, Aunt Bridget, but Elsie wants one that bad, she -can’t same to do widout it. - -ELSIE—Mine fader did always one tree for me get. - -CARLOTTA—How mucha one tree he costa? - -OPPERMAN—Ve von leedle von could get vor—led me see— - -ELSIE—I don’t one little one want. I want one big one. - -CHLOE—Shuah you do, ma honey. Like de quality allers has, a-settin’ -in de parlah, an’ a-reachin’ clar up to de high ceilin’, wid candles -a-twinklin’ an’ pretty, tings a-shinin’. Mammy’s seen ’em, in de Souf. -If we was dah, now! Dey grows dah, an’ Pompey could go out wid his axe -an’ cut one down fo’ his li’l Missy. - -ELSIE—(_very eager_) Yes, Mammy Chloe, that just what I want! Just like -the tree I always did have every Christmas. - -CARLOTTA—But where we so mucha mon’ getta? - -HILDA—They haff the so large trees the churches in. What bane they do -with them after? - -OPPERMAN—Dot vos so! Dot Svede voman vos one pargin hunter a’retty. Dot -tree be segond hand de day after de Christmas, and he gome cheap. - -CHLOE—Mah Pompey he know dah sextant ob dat big chu’ch on Ellum Street, -’n ah reckon he’ll git it mo’n cheap. Yo’ shill hab yo’ tree, Ailsie -lamb. - -TONY—I wanta tree, too. - -ELSIE—It will be one tree for everbody, a’retty. - -BRIDGET—So it shall. The entire communerty of inhabitints is invoited -to be prisint at a gran Christmas party, with a tree, refrishments and -an intertainmint, in McCarthy’s fore room the noight afther Christmas. - -ELSIE—No, not the night after; I want it the Christmas Day on. - -BRIDGET—And so it will be, bedad! I hereby make the announcemint that -Christmas at McCarthy’s will be the twinty-sixth of Dacimber this year, -and thot’s whin we’ll have our grand hippodromy. - -MICKEY—Begorry, it’s mither knows the grand worrds! - -CARLOTTA—My Antonio, he giva da peanutta and da poppa, and da bambinos -sewa it da stringa on. - -HILDA—I can sweetmeats make. - -CHLOE—Ole Chloe know how make all de good tings—de crullahs an’ cakes. - -KATIE—Mither makes foine melasses candy. - -BRIDGET—Yis, ’n I know how to make a whole cirrcus of animiles, all av -cooky dough. - -OPPERMAN—Mine brudder he work a varm on. I git him zum abbles me to -send. I—I—I gif von prezent to efery laddy in der tinemint! - -CHLOE—Purty good foh an ole bach! He, he! Chloe knows how to mek a heap -o’ li’l knick-knacks out o’ nuffin. I show yo’ li’l gals how mek de -nice Christmas gif’. Yo’ wait’n see. - -JIMMY—And everybody there must have somethin’ fer Ilsie, fer ’twas her -got it up. Murphy’s tinemint niver kipt Christmas before. - -BRIDGET—It’s goin’ ter do thot same this year, me bye. Remimber, at -McCarthy’s the avenin of the twinty-sixth, and ivery blissed sowl must -do something for the grand vodyville intertainmint. - -OPPERMAN—But vy your rooms, instead of dose room of mine? Mine der -piggest is, und downstairs, a’retty, und you all vould velcome be. - -BRIDGET—Sure yours is the biggest, an’ the most cluttered, I’d be -thinkin’. Yez see, Mr. Opperman, yer one room is pretty well filled -wid yer shtove an’ yer bed, an’ yer table, an’ all your clutter, which -a old bachelor niver doos pick up nor clane up, and me own fore room -is large and nearly impty, wid the parlor set Oi’ll be afther havin’ -some day shtill in the shtore, and it’s the foine place for the parrty, -nayther way up shtairs nor way down, an’ it’s there let it be. - -CHLOE—(_starting up_) Dar’s de whistle a-blowin’, chillen. Pappy’ll be -hum ter he suppah in two shakes ob a lamb’s tale. (_All the women hurry -in, and the children stand up, and wave their hands and shout._) - -MICKY—Three chairs fer Christmas at McCarthy’s! - -ALL—Rah, rah rah! (_Run off in both directions._) - - - CURTAIN. - - - - -SCENE II. - - -(_McCarthy’s “fore room,” with “the tree” in the corner. To make the -tree, take three old umbrellas—the skeletons only. They should be open. -Plant the handle of the first one in a tub of earth, strengthening it, -and making it firmer, by four pieces of wire fastened to the ribs, -coming down, obliquely, and anchoring firmly to the tub. A second -umbrella is fastened to the first, the handle of this one running -down by the central wire of the first, and the two wired firmly -together. A third one—and this should be one with a “crookhandle,” -hangs downward from the ceiling, just above the second. Wire till all -is firm and strong, but have the work crude. This “tree” is draped -with green tissue paper, cut into leaves of every size and shape. -Flowers and ornaments of bright tissue paper adorn it, and to every -point is firmly fastened a piece of candle. The ornaments should be -very simple—cut-out hearts, stars, etc., paper chains, lanterns, and -Jacob’s ladders, etc. At the top is fastened a large star, covered with -the silver foil that comes around compressed yeast cakes. This should -have rays of broomstraws, also covered with the foil. There should -be a great deal of ornament. Here and there are a few pieces of the -gay-colored glass balls used for decorating Christmas trees. Strings of -popcorn and cranberries also adorn the tree. Hovering over the top is -a paper angel, and at the bottom is a penny picture of the nativity. -There should be a good many penny sticks of candy on the tree, and -a few “oranges” of crepe or tissue paper. A large basket of apples -stands near the tree, while another basket and the floor around are -heaped with “the prisints,” in all sorts of rude bundles. Mr. and Mrs. -McCarthy are alone in the room, giving the last touches to “the tree.”_) - -BRIDGET—Sure, and it’s one grand evint for Murphy’s tinemint! Look at -thot tree now, will yez? Who but Jimmy wood iver have thought av it! -Sure the Baby’s eyes were full av tears, and she shtamped the little -fut av her, and she says, says she, “Khristhmas is the twinty-fifth -av Dacimber, not the twinty-sixth,” says she. Ivery buddy do be a -saying so, and I won’t have a second hand Christmas, Jimmy, I won’t. -And little cud she know av the high cost of living. She wud have a -big tree, and she would have it to-night. Bedad, if’t had bin one av -me own little spalpeens, I’d have given her a taste av me hand, where -it wud do the most good, but ye can’t spank an orphin, and I was that -distracted I didn’t know what to do, but Jimmy, he says, says he, pert -as an eyster, “We’ll have it the roight night, Ilsie, if it’ll bitter -suit yez. And we won’t have no second hand tree, nuther,” says he. -“We’ll have a brand new, original kind’t nobuddy niver had before.” -And Ilsie she stopped a wapin’, and began to look interested. “And ye -must promise me that ye’re goin’ ter loike it,” he says, ’cause Jimmy’s -plannin’ it all for his little sister, to make her happy. - -Sure and ivery one in the tinemint has brought a prisint for Ilsie, -It’s rich she’ll be whin it’s over, I do be a-thinkin’. - -PAT—She will that same. And begorry, it is a foine tree, and ivery -choild in the tinemint will injye it, I do be a-thinkin’. Arrah! here -they come! (_Voices outside. Jimmy speaks up loudly._) - -JIMMY—No, no, now. No breakin’ ranks. Kape in yer places, now, and no -crowdin’. It’s two and two ye’re afther goin’ in, as Noah’s beasties -wint inter the Ark. And Ilsie’s a comin’ first, cause if’t hadn’t bin -fer Ilsie there wudn’t a one of ye had a spick av a Christmas, no more -than ye iver did afore. - -ELSIE—I want to go in _now_, Jimmy, I do. - -JIMMY—Thin knock thray toimes on the dure wit’ yer fairy wand, and if -the little payple have all shcampered out av soight, the dure’ll open. -(_Three knocks are heard, Pat swings open the door, and all march in._) - -CHILDREN—Oh! Ah! It’s the beautiful tree! - -JIMMY—Merry Christmas, iverybody! - -CHILDREN—(_enthusiastically_) Merry Christmas, iverybody! (_The grown -people have followed the children into the room. There should be -improvised seats of boxes, barrels, and boards. They seat themselves, -and look expectantly at Elsie._) - -(_Elsie buries her face on Jimmy’s shoulder and begins to cry._) - -JIMMY—Fhwat ails yez, Ilsie darlint? Tell Jimmy fhwat’s the matter av -ye! - -ELSIE—It—it is _not_ one Christmas tree, aretty. It—it is not one tree -at all. - -JIMMY—Sure it is. Don’t yez see the green on the branches av it? - -ELSIE—(_looking up a minute_) They is not no branches at all. - -PAT—Thin what be they? - -ELSIE—I don’t know, but they no branches are, and that no tree is, -whatever. - -OTHER CHILDREN—(_indignantly_) It’s a foine tree! - -ELSIE—It is not no tree at all! Jimmy, you did said I should have one. - -JIMMY—And you said you wud loike it if Jimmy got it for yez, and now -yez don’t. Oh, Ilsie, pit! - -KATIE—(_kneeling by Elsie_) Ilsie, darlint, poor Jimmy fales awful bad. -Do yez want him to crry? - -ELSIE—I do feel bad, too, Katie. He said I should have a Christmas -tree, he did! - -KATIE—And he got ye one—a foine one! “Sure,” says he, “She’s had German -trees a lot av toimes, but she’s niver had one av this koind, and -bedad, Oi’ll git it fer her, cost it what it will,” says he; and he’s -done it, and now yez don’t loike it! That isn’t a nice grateful little -Ilsie at all. - -ELSIE—Is it a tree, really Katie—one new kind, aretty? - -KATIE—It is thot same, colleen Bawn. It’s—it’s—dear me, I disremember -the name av it. - -PAT—It’s a Pollyglot tree, that’s fhwat it is, and a rare koind, too. -And to think she doosn’t care fer thot same, whin Jimmy got it be -purpose for her! - -ELSIE—I do like it, aretty. Jimmy, don’t you cry once. It’s a nice new -kind of a tree, and I does like it. - -JIMMY—Thin thray cheers fer the grand Christmas tree! (_all join._) - -ELSIE—There candy is on it, and candles, and the angel flies over the -top aretty. It is a nice tree, Jimmy. - -TONY—I wants candy. - -CARLOTTA—Not yet-a is the candy time-a. Mia bambino mus’ wait-a. - -BRIDGET—Yis, furrst is the grand vodyville intertainmint by the -inhabitints of Murphy’s tinemint. Read off the names, Katy darlint. - -KATY—First is the spache av wilcome, by Patrick O’Rafferty McCarthy. - -PATRICK—Highly honored frinds and nayborrs. We are gathered here -to-night—to-night, we are gathered here—to—to— - -BRIDGET—(_in a stage whisper_) To celebrate. - -PATRICK—Oh yis. To celebrate. We’re gathered here to celebrate. -(_Scratches head._) We’re gathered here to celebrate—and—and—we’re -doing av thot same. - -BRIDGET—(_whispers_) It’s a joyful occasion. - -PATRICK—Bedad, and it isn’t thin. It’s anything but a jyful occasion -whin yez have a spache to make and can’t remimber a worrd av it! ’Twas -Biddy and Katie wrote it, and begorry they’ll have to say it, if it’s -said. The mate in the shell av it is this. We’ve got up this shindy fer -the orphin in our midst, little Islie, bliss the blue eyes av her! who -belongs to ivery one av us, and fer our own little childher as well—the -poor little spalpeens that we’ve chated out av a Christmas ivery year -because we wasn’t Carniggy’s. We’re a holdin’ it here in McCarthy’s -fore room, be the razin that it’s the biggest room in the tinemint, -with the ixciption of Opperman’s, which he ginerously offered, but -which was so cluttered ’twould have taxed the patience av a saint to -thry to pick it up. So it’s here, as yez see, and it’s wilcome yez are, -ivery one, Catholic and heretic, Jew, and Gintile, to hilp kape the -birthday av one little Child, by making other childer happy. Wilcome to -iverybody. Wilcome to the Christmas at McCarthy’s. (_sits down._) - -(_All, clapping and stamping._) - -Foine! Great! (_and so on._) (_Every number on the program must be -vociferously applauded._) - -KATIE—Nixt is a recitation by Patsy McCarthy, Junior. - -BRIDGET—Shpake up, Patsy love, and do as well as ould Patsy did, now. - -PATSY— - - Bedad, Oi’m glad it’s Christmas time. - Oi’m glad we’ve got a tree. - Oi’m glad that something on it hangs, - Fer Ilsie and fer me! Amen! - -KATIE—No, no, Patsy, the amen didn’t belong there. - -PATSY—(_running to his mother_) Oll roight, Katie, you kin take it aff! -(_All laugh._) - -MR. OPPERMAN—He von smart poy was, aretty, vor year old, ain’t it? - -BRIDGET—Thank yez kindly, Mr. Opperman, he was that, jist loike the -feyther av him. Oi always did say thot Pat wud have made a foine -orayter if he’d had the iddycation fer thot same. - -KATIE—Nixt is a song of Italy in the original Eyetalian, by Mrs. -Carlotta Ferrari. (_Carlotta may sing any little Italian song, or a bit -from one of the Italian operas._) - -KATIE—Nixt is a rale darkey breakdown, as danced on the Southern -plantashins at Christmas time. Danced by Caesar Augustus Lincoln -Washington. His dady will accompany him on the banjo, a rale truly -Southern instermint, which he brung from Alabamy. (_Pompey plays and -Caesar dances, cuts “pigeon wings,” etc., and ends up with an elaborate -bow to the audience, then walks on his hands to his seat._) - -KATIE—Nixt is a recitation by Miss Ilsie Strauss. - -ELSIE— - - The world was silent and starry and still. - A bright star shone over Bethlehem’s hill. - A dear little Child in the manger lay, - And that was the very first Christmas Day. - The wise men brought rich gifts of gold. - We bring our gifts, as they did of old; - And sing our carols, so glad and gay, - The whole world is keeping the Christmas Day. - -BRIDGET—Bless the swate heart av her! She remimbered thot from last -year! - -ELSIE—I always did say it at my Christmas tree, and then I did mine -hymn sing. - -MR. OPPERMAN—Sing it now for us, aretty. (_Elsie sings Martin Luther’s -cradle hymn, which begins, “Away in a Manger.”_) - -KATIE—Nixt is a Christmas flag drill, as given at school, wid -variations. Yez see, we do it at school wid the Shtars and Shtripes, -but we made these Christmas flags at school and the teacher fixed the -worruds over, and made the hull thing as Christmassy as ye plaze. And -she said we’se moight kape the flags, av we loiked, so we did loike to -do that same and here they be, thimsilves. (_She goes out a minute and -returns with the flags, which she gives out to the children who are to -take part in the drill. Half the flags are of red, half of Christmas -green, each with a large gold star in the corner._) - -KATIE—Give us all the room yez can, now, and we’ll do it as well as the -space’ll let us. - -ELSIE—We cannot up and down the aisles march, Katie. - -KATIE—Yis, ye can. Jist ye follow the laders, and we’ll march up and -down the imaginary aisles, as grand az ye plaze. Riddy, now. (_All -take places, the girls, in order-of size, behind Katie—the boys behind -Jimmy._) This is the kay, now. Sound it. (_All do so, and the march and -song begin.[A]Tune: “Wave, Old Glory.” As they sing, they march up and -down the “imaginary aisles.”_) - - - - SONG. - - We are happy little children, at the Christmas time, - See us gaily marching, marching, while our voices chime. - See the flag now wave before us, with its golden star, - Telling of the Child once born in Bethlehem afar. - - Chorus: - - Wave your banner, wave it gladly, sing in happy glee. - Let the Christmas chimes re-echo over land and sea. - - Evergreen the Christmas story, never shall it die. - Red the color bright of glory, streaming from the sky. - Golden are the stars of Christmas in the heavens so high, - Glorious was the Star that shone afar in Syria’s sky. - - Chorus: - - Wave your banner, wave it gladly, with its golden star, - While the happy children’s voices echo near and far. - - Let the Christmas joy and gladness in our hearts keep time, - While the Christmas bells are pealing forth their merry chime. - Let us all pass on the blessing sent us from above. - This the keynote of the day, the Christmas watch-word, “Love.” - - Chorus: - - Wave your banners, wave them gladly while your voices chime. - ’Tis the golden time of year, the happy Christmas time. - -(_At close of song, go on with the following drill._) - -DRILL. - -FIG. 1.—Leaders meet, hold flags high, while others march under, and -around, in two circles, twice. When they come the third time, they form -in line behind others and raise flags, forming long arch. Back couple -march down through it, and then up, outside it, to place, but do not -raise flags this time. Next couple repeat this, till all have done so, -and are in place once more. - -FIG. 2.—March backward till two lines are as far apart as space will -permit, then march forward, flags waving, through opposite lines to -other side, turn and repeat. - -FIG. 3.—March to form two circles, girls inside. Boys march completely -around them, then wind in and out around circle, then pass in and form -circle inside. - -FIG. 4.—Girls repeat Fig. 3. - -FIG. 5.—Girls, now in inner circle, march around one way, boys the -other. When they have gone around once this way, they wind the “grand -right and left,” crossing flags with each one met; passing to the right -of the first one met, and to the left of the next one met. Continue -thus around circle. - -FIG. 6.—Boys step back, making larger circle, girls step in between -boys, making one large circle. March around once, flags waving, then -all face centre. All march in toward centre, flags held high and -forward. When near enough to centre so that flags nearly touch in a -high point, march around in a wheel, then back to places again. - -FIG. 7.—Boys form line, girls form line in front: of them. Boys march -around end of this line, and form line in front of girls. Girls do -same. Continue as many times as space allows. - -FIG. 8.—Girls pass one way, boys the other, meet at back and march to -centre in spiral, first a girl, then a boy. At centre, turn and unwind -spiral. - -FIG. 9.—Come down to front, all abreast, flags waving, and bow, waving -flags with a wide sweep. - -FIG. 10.—March up in pairs, separate, pass to sides. - -KATIE—Sure and we can’t lade thim to their seats, for they haven’t any, -bedad, so we’ll call the drill inded, and hope ye loiked it. - -PAT—Thot we did, Katie darlint. ’Twas foine. - -BRIDGET—Illigant! - -MR. OPPERMAN—It vos von britty zight, aretty. - -CHLOE—And to tink dey-all larn dat in de school! - -CARLOTTA—It is da poetry and da music and da rhythm, all in one-a. - -LARS—And zey bane (_points as he counts_) one, two, tree, four, fife -nations. And all bane learning und singing like one. (_It would be nice -to have Lars count in Swedish, if he can—the author cannot._) - -POMPEY—But dey-all all like heah in de Nof. Black or white, all same as -one. - -BRIDGET—They are that same, in this blissid counthry. Here’s your -little pickaninnies, and the little Swades, the Eyetalian childher and -the Germans, and me own little Irish colleens, all aloike good frinds, -and singing all togither the Christmas songs. - -CONNIE—We aren’t Irish and Naygurs and Swades and sich, mither, we’re -Americans, ivery wan av us. Tacher says so. - -PAT—And so yez are, God bliss yez, ivery one. Sing thot song ye larned -in school—“My Own America, I Love but Thee.”[B] - -MICKEY—That ain’t a Christmas song, feyther. - -PAT—It’s good enough fer Christmas or any other day in the year. Sing -it. Pipe up, Katy gurl. (_Katy does so, and they sing._) - -MR. OPPERMAN—(_at close of song_) Dot vos von goot song, for certain. - -KATIE—Nixt is a recitation by James Terence O’Neal. - -(_Plenty of material for the children’s recitations can be found in -any Christmas collection. The ones referred to are in the little book, -“Original Christmas Recitations,” by the author of this play, and will -be sent for fifteen cents to any address, by the publishers of this -play. Each child should deliver his recitation in the same brogue, -or accent, he uses in the rest of the play. Of course, if any of the -“pieces” are changed, the comments immediately after must be changed, -also._) - -(_Jimmy recites “Vice Versa.”_) - -PAT—No danger av yez iver goin’ there, Jimsy bye, if turrkey’s the only -thing that takes yez. If it was porrk and praties, now— - -JIMMY—You and I’d both go, wouldn’t we, Uncle Pat? - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Master Antonio Ferarri, Junior. - -TONY— - - “’Fi’s a leetla orphan, wif no share in the Kissmiss joy, - I’d jus’ dopt ole Santa Clausa, and be hees leetla boy.” - -MR. OPPERMAN—A goot chooze, dot vould be, aretty. - -ELSIE—I wouldn’t. I’d ’dopt my Jimmy, and his little sister be. - -JIMMY—Just like you did, Ilsie darlint. - -KATIE—Nixt is a rale plantation song by the Washington famerly, the -hull four av thim. - -CHLOE—Yo ottah call it a quahtette, honey. Dat’s de stylish name. -(_Pompey plays his banjo, and they all sing. Any of the old Southern -Darkey songs will do—not the ragtime coon song of to-day._) - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by our esteemed frind and fellow bachelor, -Mr. Fritz Opperman. - -MR. OPPERMAN—Bud I don’t vos knew any Gristmas biece, aretty. I voz von -Jew, you see, Miss Kadie. - -KATIE—But yez kin say some dandy ones. Niver moind the Christmas part, -Mr. Opperman. Jist spale off a funny one. (_Mr. Opperman recites any -comic poem in Dutch dialect._) - -MR. OPPERMAN—Now id vos other poddy’s durn, aretty yet. - -KATIE—Yis, it’s Mickey’s. Masther Saint Michael McCarthy will now spake -a ricitation. (_Mickey recites “Santa’s Mistake.”_) - -BRIDGET—(_at close_) Sure, an’ I haven’t thin, Mickey, bye. Oi’d be -proud to have a dozin as foine ones as me own three are, and if the -ould Saint laves me anither Oi’ll kape me eyes on yez, Oi will thot. - -MICKEY—(_looking over Katie’s shoulder_) Nixt Luigi will play us a -chune on his fiddle. - -KATIE—(_pushing him_) Be off wid yez! Is that a pretty way to say it, -now? Nixt, is a violin doit, by the great Italian musishin—Misther -Antonio Ferrari, and his son Masther Luigi ditto. - -LUIGI—Ditto not my name-a. (_Antonio and Luigi play, Luigi playing -second part, preferably something distinctly Italian. If desired, -Carlotta and Bianca may sing, in Italian._) - -PAT—I doos loike a good fiddle chune. - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Thelma Omstrom. (_Thelma recites -“The Birdie’s Tree.”_) - -MR. OPPERMAN—Dot von goot ting to do vos, aretty. - -HILDA—We always do so in Sweden. The birrds their Chrissmas haff as -well as the little ones. - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Constantia Erin McCarthy. (_Connie -recites “Baby’s Shopping.”_) - -PAT—The littel spalpeen. If thot wasn’t a good joke now! - -KATIE—Nixt is an ould Latin hymn, as sung in the Catholic churches, by -Mrs. Bridget Maloney McCarthy, who was once a soloist in the church in -Kerry. (_Bridget sings “Adeste Fidelis,” or some other old Christmas -hymn. If preferred, she may sing in English, but the old Latin hymns -are very beautiful._) - -PAT—Sure, and Oi heard her a singing thot same hymn one Christmas in -ould Oirland. Oi’d been to say me mither’s ant, in Kerry, and was a -going home the nixt day. But I didn’t. “Begorry, thot’s the vice, fer -me,” says I, and I stayed and coorted the singer. - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Bianca Ferrari. (_Bianca recites -“What They Found.”_) - -LARS—Take a warning, you Luigi boy, and don’t bane tease your sister -any more. - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Cleopatry Harriet Beecher Stowe -Washington. - -CLEOPATRA—’Twarn’t no resh’tashing. ’Twar a song—a lullerby. - -KATIE—Shure and it was thot same. Ixcuse me, Cleo. - -CLEOPATRA—Whah’s my pick-a-ninny, Mammy? (_Mammy takes from a capacious -pocket a rag doll rolled up from an old black stocking with features -sewed on, and a cap and long dress of white._) - -CHLOE—Heah she am, honey chile. Sing her to sleep now. (_Cleopatra may -sing any darkey lullaby._) - -HILDA—A sweet little song, and nicely singed. - -KATIE—Nixt is a ricitation by Carl Omstrom. (_Carl recites “A Ten Cent -Christmas.”_) - -LARS—(_at close of recitation_) And I did buy effery one of tem for -some one here. I bane had a real dime. - -KATIE—And now, as Mr. Lars Omstrom and Mrs. Hilda Omstrom have begged -to be ixcused, we will ind this programme by a good rousing Christmas -carol, sung by iverbuddy. - -JIMMY—No, yez don’t. Miss Katherine McCarthy hasn’t done her share yit. - -KATIE—Yis I did, Jimmy. I read the programme. - -MICKY—No go. Ye’ve got ter sing, Katie. - -KATIE—But I wasn’t ixpicting to do that same, and— - -PAT—Niver moind the appollygies. Give ’em “Rory O-More,” Katy love. -(_Katy sings “Rory O’More,” or any preferred Irish song._) - -KATIE—And now fer the grand final choris! Iverrybuddy sing. (_All -sing any chosen Christmas Carol, old or new. At the end, Mr. Strauss, -Elsie’s father, walks in._) - -MR. STRAUSS—A vine ghorus, dot! Dey dold me I should mine leetle Elsie -find here. - -ELSIE—(_springing into his arms_) Mine fader! Oh, mine fader! How did -you yourselluf find, aretty? - -MR. STRAUSS—Mine own leedle von! Und your mutter is died, dey zay. - -ELSIE—Ya, and you did lost yourselluf, and— - -MR. STRAUSS—I vos not loss, I vos seeck, so long dime mine head mitout, -and could not the American talk remember. Mine uncle has died, Elsie, -und I am a rich man, aretty. - -ELSIE—I was a rich girl, too, mine fader. See the grand Christmas tree -we have on that corner. It is mine tree. Jimmy got it for me. - -MR. STRAUSS—I vill go and buy von big real tree aretty, mine Elsie, -with candles and ornaments and gifts, and all these shall see. - -ELSIE—I’d rather have this tree, mine fader. I do this tree like. - -MR. STRAUSS—Den dis tree you shall have, mine Elsie, and New Years’ Day -we will one big tree have, mine country blace out at, and all these -shall come, who have mine Elsie bin goot to, aretty. - -JIMMY—Are you going to take Elsie away, sir? - -ELSIE—I can’t from Jimmy away go. Mine Jimmy must with us go, mine -fader. I vos Jimmy’s little sister. - -MR. OPPERMAN—It vos dot Chimmy dot did find her crying the street in, -and pring her here. - -MR. STRAUSS—And you cared for her? You did not let her to the Orphan -asylum go? But you are poor people. How you do it? - -PAT—Sure we did it betwane us, and nobody missed the bite and sup the -wee colleen took. But she’s the loight av all our eyes, sir, and we -shall miss her sadly. Indade we shall. - -MR. STRAUSS—She shall come back. She often shall come. And all you who -so kind have been shall come her to see. Ve never our friends shall -forget, who cared for mine Elsie. - -ELSIE—But Jimmy must go, mine fader. I will not without mine Jimmy go. - -MR. STRAUSS—But his mudder, Elsie, she will not him let go. - -ELSIE—_I_ will let him go. He is mine Jimmy! And he has no mudder. - -MR. STRAUSS—No mudder? How dot vos? Who dot poy belong to aretty? - -BRIDGET—He was my sister’s bye, and as good a bye as iver walked on two -ligs. - -MR. STRAUSS—Let him come mine poy to be—mine Elsie’s brodder. He shall -von edugation have, and in mine pusiness be, by and by. Vill you mine -poy be, Chimmy? - -BRIDGET—Sure and he will. It’s not mesilf will stand in his loight, -and he desarves all the good things he’ll get. It’s sorry we’ll -be to lose him and Ilsie too. Bedad she’s the babby av the whole -tinemint—but—Whisht there, Connie! ye musn’t wape. There’s the three to -be loighted, and all the prisints and the candy and apples. All roise, -now, and say Wilcome, and we’ll be afther lighting thot three. (_All -rise, and shout heartily._) Welcome, welcome to Elsie’s father! Rah! -Rah! Rah! - -ELSIE—I want the candles to light. Jimmy did say I might! (_Her father -holds her up and she lights one or two, to the accompaniment of the -children’s “ohs!” and “ah’s”! as the curtain falls._) - - - CURTAIN. - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[A] Furnished by the publishers of this book. Sheet music, price, -twenty-five cents. - -[B] This song is published by Paine Publishing Company. 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