s to put on the "movie" is given a subject and must then
stand out on the stage or Council Ring, and carry all the story to the
spectators, without using any sound and with as few accessories as
possible.

The "print between the reels" is supplied by the Guide who simply
announces what is needed to explain.

The following subjects have been used successfully (unless otherwise
stated they are for one actor each):

Miss Muffet and the Spider--the well-known
Nursery Rhyme
Old Mother Hubbard
Little Jack Horner
Mary and her Little Lamb
Red Ridinghood--walk through the woods,
meeting the wolf, etc.
Robinson Crusoe--finding the track of a man
in the sand
A Barber Shop--shaving a customer (two actors)
The Man's First Speech at a Dinner
The Politician who was rotten-egged after vainly
trying to control a meeting
Joyride in a Ford Car--ending in a bad upset
(two actors)
The Operation--a scene in a hospital following
the accident (two or more)
The Professor of Hypnotism and His Subject (two actors)
The Man who Found a Hair in His Soup
The Young Lady Finds a Purse, on opening it a mouse
jumps out and she remembers that it is 1st of April
A Young Man Telephoning to His Best Girl
A Man Meeting and Killing a Rattlesnake
Lighting a Lamp
Drawing a Cork
Looking for a Lost Coin--finding it in one pocket or
shoe
A Musician Playing His Own Composition
The Sleeping Beauty and the Prince (two actors)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
William Tell and the Apple (best rendered in caricature
with a pumpkin and two actors)
Eliza Crossing the Ice
The Kaiser Signing His Abdication
The Judgment of Solomon (three actors)
Brutus Condemning His Two Sons to Death.

TALE 94

A Natural Autograph Album

If you live in the country, I can show you an old Woodcraft trick. Look
for a hollow tree. Sometimes you can pick one out afar, by the dead top,
and sometimes by noting a tree that had lost one of the biggest limbs
years ago. In any case, basswoods, old oaks and chestnuts are apt to be
hollow; while hickories and elms are seldom so, for once they yield to
decay at all, they go down.

Remember that every hollow tree is a tenement house of the woods. It may
be the home of a score of different families. Some of these, like Birds
and Bats, are hard to observe, except at nesting t