Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 225
die,VCle 11 bury it in a Christmas pieHnd ever more be merry. The stage should be decorated for these tableaux with branches of fir and garlands of evergreen, and with ivy,holly, and mistletoe wherever it can appropriately be placed, the decorations remaining throughout the series ofpictures. The… … father Christmas. JNbw be who knows old Christmas,Re knows a carle of worth;for be is as good a fellowHs any upon earth. Father Christmas should occupy a throne placed on a dais in center of stage. His long white beard flows overa dark-green, ermine-bordered robe with hanging sleeves, and he wears…
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