Chapter I: Part II

DIALOGUES, EXERCISES, MUSICAL PIECES AND PLAYS.

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 Claus’ Garden 87
Santa Claus in Many Lands 93
Spirit of Christmas, The 101

The songs in this book are to be sung to old airs that are presumably familiar to everyone. If any of them should prove unfamiliar, however, the music will be found in Denison’s “_Songs Worth While_,” one of the best arranged and most carefully edited collections of old favorites ever published. This book is beautifully printed on non-glossy paper, measuring 10¼ by 7 inches, and is well bound in a stout paper cover done in colors. It may be obtained from the publisher for the price of $1.00, postpaid.

INTRODUCTORY

It becomes more and more a part of Christmas gayety to present the legends, or the spirit of it, to the eye as well as the mind.

For this purpose the following pages have been prepared in play and pantomime, songs and marches, drills and recitations.

While the needs of adults have not been forgotten, those of the children have been most largely remembered, since Christmas is pre-eminently the children’s festival.

A word to those who take charge of such affairs may not be amiss.

Precision of movement is the keynote of success for everything of this kind. This does not mean stiffness, but it does mean exactitude and certainty. Uncertain gestures in speaking; scattered attack and close in singing; hesitation in acting; and, more than all, careless motions and marching in the drills (corners not formed squarely, motions only half in unison, etc.)—all these are fatal to that success which makes such entertainments entertaining.

Here, as everywhere else, “What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”

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