The jolliest and tallest boy should take this character, and hold the tray above his head. If the readers will find the HARPER'S MONTHLY for December, 1880, they can copy the tableaux with greatest ease. While these tableaux are shown the poem should be recited in entirety, and, if thought advisable, more tableaux might be readily added. Other examples of the religious would be to show an out-of-door winter scene, with snow-covered hills and leafless tree branches, on which a little snow has fallen. Towards the front of the stage half a dozen girls and boys, in gay attire with picturesque wraps and hats, should stand. They should be naturally grouped; some of the boys should have their hands in their pockets, others, again, have them drawn under their short cloaks. It is a cold night, and the young people should indicate it. While they thus stand an invisible chorus should sing a hymn of the Nativity. Or, with a similar background, show five girls standing in a straight line, a tall one in the centre; the two shortest should stand on each end. The girls should be attired differently, but all in warm apparel, with fur-edged cloaks or fur garments of any sort; each girl should have her hands in a muff. Show a quantity of warm color, which can readily be done by silk mufflers, frocks, ribbons, and feathers. Back of these girls an invisible chorus must sing a Christmas carol. A catchy tableau series would be Mother Goose and her children celebrating Christmas. _Tableau First_.--Mother Goose in her tall cone-shaped hat, riding on an enormous goose. Copy hers and all the other costumes from Mother Goose's book. _Tableau Second_.--Her children faithfully charactered. Little Jack Horner should be sitting in a corner, eating his Christmas pie. The King in his parlor should be dressed to represent a king. Simple Simon should meet pie-man going to the fair, etc. _Tableau Third_.--A sleeping apartment, Mother Goose and her family in bed. Great prominence must be shown to Mother Goose, whose bed is in front, and near hers some of her more notable children. This scene may be readily arranged by putting small cots on the stage; the children can lie down dressed, the coverlets hiding their clothing. Near each bed put that which would indicate their character, as example, the big pie for the pie-man. [Illustration] _Tableau Fourth_.--Santa Claus at home about time to start. Interior of a room, simply packed with all sorts of hobby-horses, dolls--big and little, dressed and undressed--musical birds, woolly sheep, sleighs, drums, tenpins, everything in the toy line that could be imagined or described, while in a large easy-chair before the lighted grate-fire sits old Santa himself, as gray-bearded, fat, and jolly as ever. _Tableau Fifth_.--Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep and dreamt--