from behind. In the basket should be a stool to aid the fairies in
getting in and out.

For safety, the lamp should be lighted by electricity, and the candle
likewise would better be an electric one, run by a dry battery.

In the last scene the table should be set well back near the
fire-place, and when the people rise from the table one of them,
without attracting attention, should fasten a piece of dark cloth
(already fast at one end) between the table and the top of the
entrance to the fire-place. There will then be no danger that in
passing in and out by that route any of the actors will show their
heads above the table and betray the secret of the change. When the
old folks go under the table they turn and pass out through the
fire-place, their young substitutes entering there and appearing at
the other end of the table. With a little practice, it can be made to
seem as though the progress had been directly from one end of the
table to the other.

If gifts or candies are to be distributed Mother Goose may make a
final appearance immediately after the final Curtain, and speak
substantially as follows:

Well, children, did you like it? Do you know, I rather wished I could
try one of those magic nuts myself. I think I'd made a real cunning
little girl, don't you? But there is no use wishing for what you can't
have, and besides, there's something more important to be attended to.
I notice that Santa Claus is a great one to give everybody presents,
and sure enough he's done it again this time just as usual. He's
brought boxes of candy for all you boys and girls. He left them