orting the elephant's head with his head
and slipping his right hand into the upper part of the trunk so as to
swing it. Throw over them a large, dark-colored shawl, reaching to
their knees, fasten it together in the back and pin on a tail made of
cambric and stuffed. Legs covered with brown burlap.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL OR THE MISER'S YULETIDE DREAM

[Illustration:

SCROOGE BOB CRATCHIT MARLEY'S GHOST SECOND SPIRIT

THIRD SPIRIT WAIT MISSION LASS FRED FIRST SPIRIT

COSTUME OF
MRS. FEZZIWIG FEZZIWIG BELLA EBENEZER & DICK FIDDLER

PETER, BETTY,
BELINDA and MRS. CRATCHIT MARTHA BOB TINY TIM

THE CRATCHIT FAMILY]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL OR THE MISER'S YULETIDE DREAM

ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS' IMMORTAL STORY.

CHARACTERS.

EBENEZER SCROOGE _A Middle-aged Merchant_
"Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck
out generous fire."

BOB CRATCHIT _Scrooge's Clerk_
"With the Christmas spirit in his heart."

FRED _Scrooge's Nephew_
"A whole-souled, merry-hearted young married man."

TWO MISSION LASSIES

THE GHOST OF JACOB MARLEY _Scrooge's Partner_
"Dead these seven years."

FIRST SPIRIT (Little Girl) _The Ghost of Christmas Past_

SECOND SPIRIT _The Ghost of Christmas Present_

THIRD SPIRIT _The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Be_

A CHORUS OF YOUNG BOYS _Carol Singers_

FIRST WAIT _The Leader of the Singers_

MR. FEZZIWIG _A Jolly Old Merchant_

MRS. FEZZIWIG _One Vast Substantial Smile_

EBENEZER _Scrooge as a Young Man_

DICK _His Fellow Clerk_

THE OLD FIDDLER

BELLA _Scrooge's First and Only Love_

MRS. CRATCHIT _Bob's Wife_

BELINDA, _Aged Eighteen_ }
MARTHA, _Aged Seventeen_ }
PETER, _Aged Fourteen_ }
BOB, _Aged Eleven_ } _Bob Cratchit's Family_
BETTY, _Aged Nine_ }
TINY TIM, _Aged Four_ }

_Five Ladies, Five Gentlemen and a Little Boy for the Fezziwig Tableau_

STAVE I.

SCENE: _The counting house of_ SCROOGE _and_ MARLEY. _A dark, dreary
office, indicated by brown curtains at sides, with entrances R. and L.
and br