Produced by Michael Gray (Lost_Gamer@comcast.net) _By_ Constance D'Arcy Mackay BOOKS OF PLAYS FOR CHILDREN DESIGNED FOR USE IN THE SCHOOLS Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The one-act plays for young people contained in this volume can be produced separately, or may be used as links in the chain of episodes which go to make up outdoor or indoor pageants. There are full directions for simple costumes, dances, and music. Each play deals with the _youth_ of some American hero. The plays are suitable for schools, summer camps, boys' clubs, historic festivals, patriotic societies, and social settlements, and play grounds. $1.35 net; by mail, $1.45. The Silver Thread and Other Folk Plays for Young People Simplicity is the keynote of these eight plays. Each has a footnote on its origin, and full descriptions and directions for easily arranged costumes and scene-settings, especially designed to fit the limitations of the schoolroom stage. $1,20 net; by mail, $1.30. The House of the Heart and Other Plays for Children Ten one-act plays that have stood the test of actual production. $1.20 net; by mail, $1.30. "An addition to child drama which has been sorely needed."--_Boston Transcript._ HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK PATRIOTIC PLAYS AND PAGEANTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY CONSTANCE D'ARCY MACKAY _Author of "The House of the Heart and Other Plays for Children" and "The Silver Thread and Other Folk Plays for Young People"_ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY--- Published March, 1912 No performance of these plays may be given without full acknowledgment of the author and publishers. Acknowledgment should be made to read as follows: "By Constance D'Arcy Mackay; from _Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People_; Copyright, 1912, by Henry Holt and Company; Produced by arrangement with the publishers." Amateurs may produce the plays in this volume without charge. Professional actors _must_ apply for acting rights to the author, in care of the publishers. PREFACE The one-act plays for young people contained in this volume can be produced separately, or may be used as links in the chain of episodes which go to make up outdoor or indoor pageants. There are full directions for simple costumes, dances, and music. Each play deals with the _youth_ of some American hero, so that the lad who plays George Washington or Benjamin Franklin will be in touch with the emotions of a patriot of his own years, instead of incongruously portraying an adult. Much of the dialogue contains the actual words of Lincoln, Washington, and Franklin, so that in learning their lines the youthful players may grasp something of the hardihood and sagacity of Washington, the perseverance of Franklin, and the honesty and dauntlessness of Lincoln, and of those salient virtues that went to the up-building of America--a heritage from the time "when all the land was young."