Now cut the square right at the top, and cut it down each side.
Upon the base, you bend it in. It cannot be denied
This makes a “really truly” stage! For scenery you use
Some pretty colored postal cards of houses, and some views.
To put these in, you cut a slit upon the box’s top,
And through a wider one, in front, the dolls on threads you drop.
The Punch and Judy or Little Dolls’ Theater is made from a deep
letter-paper box and its cover. The scenery is a fancy postal
card and the actor is a doll.
The Merry-go-Round is made from the covers of two round
bandboxes, a cardboard roll and penny cut-outs purchased at the
children’s “penny store.”