[4]. Oldest daughter sits down to play, children near front, parents in background.
[5]. Sing “Vesper Hymn”--if possible, with piano accompaniment.
[6]. Little girl looking in from opposite side of room, screen door ajar; family grouped as above.
[7]. She has advanced to center of foreground, side face to audience, but looking toward the mother, the rest watching her.
DEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER.
Grandmother paces with stately tread
Forward and back through the quaint old room,
Out of the firelight dancing and red,
Into the gathering dusk and gloom;