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The Woodcutter s Christmas A Play for Children Classic Reprint

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Excerpt from The Woodcutter's Christmas: A Play for Children

The stage is set as a living room or kitchen in a peasant's cottage. There may be a fireplace at the right front with a table and chairs near it. A door at right rear leads into kitchen or other small room. A door at left rear opens into the yard. There is a window at left front. Other furniture may be placed as needed.

As the curtain rises the Wife is sitting by the table mending. Olga and Henry are playing cat's-cradle Elizabeth is watching them. They are singing a Christmas carol as the curtain rises. Any old carol or appropriate Christmas song is suitable. At the end of the carol Elizabeth speaks.

Elizabeth - How long is it now, Mother, before Christmas?

Wife - Only one day more and then Christmas Day.

Henry - And when do we put our shoes by the fire for St. Nicholas to fill?

Wife - Tomorrow night when you go to bed you may leave your shoes out. But, who knows? You may find them filled with twigs.

Henry - Why should they be filled with twigs? Ive been a good boy all the year.

Olga - A good boy all the year! Who could it have been that ran off with 'Lizbeth's doll yesterday and pretended that he had thrown it in the fire?

Wife - And who could it have been that chased the cat into the pantry and frightened her so that she knocked over the pitcher of milk?

Olga - And last week who slid off the roof of the shed and tore great holes in his clothes?

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