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    The Christmas Dinner
    The Christmas Dinner
    The Christmas Dinner
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    The Christmas Dinner

    By Shepherd Knapp

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2007
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      The Christmas Dinner - Shepherd Knapp

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Christmas Dinner, by Shepherd Knapp

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Christmas Dinner

      Author: Shepherd Knapp

      Release Date: December 29, 2004 [eBook #14508]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHRISTMAS DINNER***

      E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Riikka Talonpoika,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      BY

      SHEPHERD KNAPP

      The Heidelberg Press

      Publishers for Discriminators

      Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia

      1921

      TO THOSE

      WHO FIRST ACTED IN THIS PLAY

      TO THOSE WHO WITH SO MUCH SKILL AND PATIENCE

      TRAINED THE PARTICIPANTS

      AND TO THE FRIENDLY AUDIENCES OF BOYS AND GIRLS

      WHO ENCOURAGE US BY THEIR APPLAUSE

      IT IS DEDICATED

      This play is intended, not only for acting, but also for reading. It is so arranged that boys and girls can read it to themselves, just as they would read any other story. Even the stage directions and the descriptions of scenery are presented as a part of the narrative. At the same time, by the use of different styles of type, the speeches of the characters are clearly distinguished from the rest of the text, an arrangement which will be found convenient when parts are being memorized for acting.

      The play has been acted more than once, and by different groups of people; sometimes on a stage equipped with footlights, curtain, and scenery; sometimes with barely any of these aids. Practical suggestions as to costumes, scenery, and some simple scenic effects will be found at the end of the play.

      What sort of a Christmas play do the boys and girls like, and in what sort do we like to see them take part? It should be a play, surely, in which the dialogue is simple and natural, not stilted and artificial; one that seems like a bit of real life, and yet has plenty of fancy and imagination in it; one that suggests and helps to perpetuate some of the happy and wholesome customs of Christmas; above all, one that is pervaded by the Christmas spirit. I hope that this play does not entirely fail to meet these requirements.

      Worcester, Mass.

      SHEPHERD KNAPP.

      Before the Play begins, MOTHER GOOSE comes out in front of the curtain, and this is what she says:

      Well, well, well, well, well, here we all are again. And what's more important, Christmas is here again, too. Aren't you glad? Now I want to tell you children something. Do you know what I enjoy most at Christmas time? It's to come in here and see all you children sitting in rows and rows, all your faces looking up at me, and a smile on every one of them. Why, even some of those great big men and women back there are smiling, too. And I think I know why you are all smiling. There are two reasons for it, I believe. One is that you think old Mother Goose is a good friend of yours, and loves you all very much. And you're quite right about that, for I declare, I love every one of you as much as I love—plum pudding. And the second reason why you are all smiling, I guess, is

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