For we are the various Packages that come at Christmas time,
So interesting, so delightful, aren’t we big and prime?
Christmas is a-coming soon, and everything’s fine and gay,
Hurrah, then, for the Christmas time, it is the jolliest day.
(The Packages stand behind the Candy Bags.)
Tin Soldiers—
Tune: “Co-ca-che-lunk.”
(Soldiers are heard behind the scenes marking time. Music soft at first. As it grows louder the marking time grows louder; then they enter, march to the center of the stage and halt in two lines, facing the audience.)
We are coming, for ’tis Christmas, and it’s time that we were here,
For the little boys are waiting