Scene 1: A Street
This can be made by placing a row of chairs with open backs near the wall facing the audience; a child is stationed behind each chair, and, looking through the open back, pretends to be looking out of a window.
BAND
First Child behind chair.—Oh! dear, how dull our street always is. I declare nothing nice ever comes this way.
Second Child.—No, I quite agree with you. Why, I haven't seen a "Punch and Judy" for months. I wish my mother would go and live in another street.
Third Child.—Never mind, let us go out and have a game.
(Enter five or six children—or a lesser number, if more convenient—carrying toy musical instruments.)
First Child.—Hurrah! Here comes a German band. Come along, children; let's go and listen to it.
(The band groups itself at the end of the street, and the children stand round. After tuning up, the band begins to play.)