(Exit Poachers.)

(Enter Carolers.)

  1. What Child is This?
  2. Good King Wenceslas.
  3. Christians Awake, Salute the Happy Morn.

(Exit Carolers.)

Curtain

Note: It is very effective when the carolers can conveniently sing for the first time off stage, as if in the distance. The carolers should be appropriately dressed for cold weather, carry lanterns and the stage should be darkened.

ACT II.

Note: Harold and Ethel in their pursuit of Santa Claus, the village Toymaker and Shop Keeper, find themselves far from home and in the grounds immediately surrounding Brereton Hall. The stage setting should consist of a hedge row built up of small evergreen trees at the rear of the stage and on both ends, with a wooden stile set in the hedge on right stage. Evergreen branches are strewn around, left there by the hedger, who had been trimming the hedges about the grounds.

The children enter from left and the Poachers, for such are Clews and Allcock, who later appear, enter from the right, climb over the stile and soon get busy at the task which brought them there, namely, the bagging of a brace of rabbits for their Christmas dinner.