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angs from the shoulder and trails on the ground. 10. Sage: robe, 6 yards. 11. Young Girl: dress, 6 yards. 12. Courtier: tunic, 2 yards; shirt, 2-1/2 yards. PROPERTIES. The following list gives the properties needed in the play.-- In the hut: 1. A porridge pot. 2. Three small bowls. 3. Three spoons. If pewter spoons are not to be had, wooden spoons can be bought cheaply. 4. Porridge. Custard or Spanish cream looks like porridge and is more easily eaten on the stage, but hot cream of wheat is also palatable if sweetened and the steam from it will lend a touch of realism to the scene.--It will save time to have it put in the three small bowls before the rise of the curtain, and the bowls can be covered with three little plates to keep the steam in till the food is wanted. 5. Two roughly made but substantial stools, one near the window, the other before the fire. Stools are better than chairs with backs because they do not obstruct the view of the audience during the chancel scene. 6. Three large nails or wooden pegs in the walls strong enough to hold things, one on each side of the fire-place and one near the door. These would be impracticable with scenery made of screens as any weight on the screen would pull it over. A solid wooden chest, as a carpenter's tool chest, could be substituted to hold the children's wraps and the extra shawl for the old woman. The chest could be placed against the screen on the left or right as convenient. 7. Steen's cap and cape. 8. Holger's cap and cape. 9. The extra shawl Holger puts around the old woman. 10. Two bright pennies for Holger's gift. 11. Logs of firewood on the hearth. Not needed of course if the brazier is used instead of the fireplace. In the chancel: 12. An altar cloth. This is properly a piece of fine linen edged with deep real lace. It should not be so wide as to cover the top of the altar, lest it obscure the light shining up through the hole. It should hang down in front of the altar and at the sides about eighteen inches. A very handsome looking lace altar cloth can be cut from white paper. 13. Candle-sticks. 14. Candles. 15. Two censers: Very passable censers can be made by swinging brass cups on the brass chains that come for looping back curtains. 16. Incense. 17. Charcoal to burn the incense. (This comes in the box with the incense.) 18. Matches to light the incense. 19. The chimes (or the phonog
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