ever you can between the acts, for all the fun will be spoiled if
you keep your audience waiting. If you have no curtain or screen, the
actors must simply walk off the stage at the end of the scenes.

To act charades well, one requires a little practice and plenty of
good temper, for, of course, only one or two can take principal parts,
and therefore some of the children must be content to take the smaller
ones. It is a good plan to take it in turns to play the best parts,
and if the elder children are kind and thoughtful, they will try
to make some easy little parts, so that their younger brothers and
sisters may also join in the fun. Here we give you a very simple
charade, the words of which you may learn, and then act, after which
you will very likely be able to make up charades for yourselves.

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THE "BAND-BOX" CHARADE

SCENE 1: A STREET

This can be made by placing a row of chairs with open backs near the
wall facing the audience; a child is stationed behind each chair, and,
looking through the open back, pretends to be looking out of a window.

BAND

First Child behind chair.--Oh! dear, how dull our street always is. I
declare nothing nice ever comes this way.

Second Child.--No, I quite agree with you. Why, I haven't seen a