But we’ll always be to the Christmas tree
Worth more than tongue can tell.
(The pianist now plays a lively march, and all the toys parade around the stage and off.)
DIRECTIONS.
The Candy Bags are four little girls, two dressed in red and two in white. Their dresses are of tarletan or cheesecloth over slips of the same color. They are just wide enough to go over the ordinary dresses and long enough to reach from the neck to an inch or so below the bottom of their skirts. Let all be the same length. The top of the bags (or dresses) are gathered with a ruffle around the children’s necks. Their arms are kept inside of the dresses.
The Packages are ten boys or girls, or both. Their costumes are shaped of cardboard, inside of which the children stand, their legs showing below and their arms coming through at the sides. Holes are cut through the cardboard for them to see and breathe through, and these holes must be located so as to be the inner corners of the eyes, or in the nose of the large faces which must be marked upon the wrappings of the packages. Close fitting sleeves of the same color as the paper wrapping the packages are upon the arms, and the stockings should also match the paper.
The package of skates is covered with brown paper over a cylinder of cardboard, with a twist at the top and tied with a large cord.
The Dress, also of brown paper, but larger, and in an oblong parcel.
Grandma’s shawl, a lighter brown paper, tied with ribbon.