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Marie Tells the Story
The Babushka, Page 209
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
Plays for Boys and Girls
BY
ELSIE HOBART CARTER
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1915
Copyright, 1915,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published November, 1915
Printed, November, 1922
PRINTED IN THE U S A BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY N J
To the memory of
W.N.H.
who loved both plays
and players
Thanks are due to The Century Company; Mr. Tudor Jenks; Miss K.A.Prichard; Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman; the Lothrop, Lee & ShepardCompany; Colonel Thomas E. Davis; Miss Gertrude Hall; Harper &Brothers; the John Church Company; and the Universalist PublishingHouse, for permission to use copyrighted material, as particularlyacknowledged throughout the book.
CONTENTS
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| Suggestions for Production | xv |
| I. The Christ-Candle. In Two Scenes | 1 |
Seventeen characters: Two, the mother and St.Nicholas, played by adults; seven boys andfour girls from six to twelve years; four boys,or three boys and a girl, fourteen to eighteen.Important parts fall to three of the youngerchildren, two boys and one girl, and the Star-Childmust be able to sing alone.
Setting: 1st. Snow-scene in forest.
2nd. Interior,—a poor hovel.
Time of playing: 40 minutes.
This play makes use of the old German beliefthat the Christ-Child returns to earth eachChristmas Eve to seek shelter among men. Alittle waif, lost in the snow, is refused help bythe selfishne