"And what about the Fifth?"
"Something from As You Like It, I fancy. Their classroom door was open as I passed last night, and I caught a glimpse of them painting scenery on great pieces of brown paper. It was evidently for a wood."
"It might be for A Midsummer-Night's Dream."
"Well, yes, of course it might."
"One thing is certain," said Lorna Hallam; "we mustn't decide upon Shakespeare."
"No; it would be too stale if we happened to choose the very same scene."
"Can't we have something comic?" suggested Myfanwy James.
"Yes, a short farce," agreed Ursula Bramley. "There are several very jolly ones in the book Miss Bardsley lent me. It would be quite a change."
"Where's the book? Let us look at it."
The little plays were mostly old friends with new faces. Well-known tales had been dramatized, and given a humorous element that made them very suitable for Christmas performances.