coat, soft white shirt, black stock tie, high collar made
by taking an ordinary turn-over collar and turning it up.

BOB CRATCHIT--Very shabby dark suit. Long white woolen muffler. Old
cap. Suit should be the same style as that worn by Scrooge, but much
shabbier. Clothing neatly patched. He wears a sprig of mistletoe or
holly in Staves 1 and 2.

FRED--Bright, cheerful young man of 22. Overcoat and top hat. Ruffled
shirt, stock tie and collar as for Scrooge.

MISSION LASSIES--Dark skirts, capes, blue poke bonnets with red ribbon
across front.

THE GHOST OF JACOB MARLEY--Long black robe. Black hood. Chains around
waist, with toy money banks on chains. Take a skeleton false face and
with gray and black and white grease paint make up your own face like
a false face. Or if desired, wear the false face. Speak in low
monotone.

FIRST SPIRIT--A little girl of 10. Long light hair. White Grecian
draperies trimmed with tinsel. Crown of tinsel.

SECOND SPIRIT--Man dressed in a red robe, trimmed with sprigs of green
pine. White cotton border to represent snow. Cap of white cotton.

THIRD SPIRIT--Use same costume and make-up as Marley's Ghost.

WAITS--White smocks, ragged trousers. Felt hats twined with red and
green ribbon. Carry branches of holly.

MR. FEZZIWIG--Low shoes with pasteboard buckles covered with tinfoil.
Short black trousers. White stockings. Fancy colonial coat and hat.
White colonial wig. A short, stout man of middle age. Always laughing,
moving around, etc.

MRS. FEZZIWIG--Middle-aged lady in gay colonial tuck-up dress. White
colonial wig.

EBENEZER and DICK--Two young men in colonial costume. No wigs.

THE FIDDLER--White wig and whiskers. Long white smock. Hat trimmed
with ribbons.

BELLA--Neat colonial costume of pink and white. Hair in curls.

THE CRATCHIT FAMILY--Old-fashioned costumes, faded and worn, but
bright with cheap lace and gay ribbons. Peter wears a large white
collar.

HER CHRISTMAS HAT

[Illustration:

WARREN WILLIAMS KITTY, HIS WIFE MISS MINERVA MOCKRIDGE

MAGINNIS GOOGIN EDDIE MRS HONORIA GOOGIN

MRS LAURA LACEY HOGAN HARD TIMES ANNIE]

HER CHRISTMAS HAT

A FARCE IN ONE ACT.

CHARACTERS.

WARREN WILLIAMS _A Young Architect_
KITTY _His Wife_
MISS MINERVA MOCKRIDGE _From Kankakee_
MAGINNIS GOOGIN _The Janitor of the Apartment_
MRS. HONORIA GOOGIN _His Wife_
EDDIE