[Illustration: PATSY MATSY PETER PAN MRS O'TOOLE MRS MULLIGAN TEDDY MAGEE PATSY & MATSY (3rd Act) MICKY MACHREE BRIDGET HONORA MARY ANN MELISSA CLARISSA NORA EUDORA] CHRISTMAS WITH THE MULLIGAN'S A FUNNY CHRISTMAS PLAY IN THREE SHORT ACTS. CHARACTERS. THE WIDOW MULLIGAN _With a Heart Overflowing with Sunshine_ PATSY _Aged Twelve_ MATSY _Aged Eleven_ TEDDY MAGEE _Aged Seven_ NORA EUDORA _Aged Fourteen_ MICKY MACHREE _Aged Five_ BRIDGET HONORA _Aged Ten_ SWEET MARY ANN _Aged Eight_ MELISSA _Aged Six_ CLARISSA _Aged Six_ WEE PETER PAN _Aged Four_ MRS. O'TOOLE, _A Neighbor_ _With a Heart Overflowing with Kindness_ * * * * * TIME OF PLAYING--_About One Hour._ * * * * * _How they lived and what they wore will be told under the "Notes to the Manager" at the end of the play._ ARGUMENT. Sure, there isn't much argument at all, at all. It's all happiness and merriment and love, and where there is happiness and merriment and love there isn't any time for argument. The Widow Mulligan is a cheerful washerwoman who lives in Mulligan Alley in Shantytown, surrounded by her ten little Mulligans, to say nothing of the goat, Shamus O'Brien. A good-hearted neighbor, Mrs. O'Toole, has a lively time with the goat, but she forgives all his misdeeds as it is Christmas Eve and the little Mulligans are starting out for a grand Christmas entertainment. When they return they entertain their mother and Mrs. O'Toole, and, incidentally, the audience. But let's have done with the argument and let the fun begin. * * * * * ACT I. SCENE: _The Mulligan's front room. Entrances at right and left. Window at rear. At rise of curtain_ MRS. MULLIGAN _is discovered at C., washing clothes in a tub._ BRIDGET HONORA _and_ MATSY _are hanging wet clothes on a line, which runs across the rear of the stage._ MRS. MULLIGAN (_singing to a made-up tune as she washes_). Oh, give me a nice little home, And plenty of suds in me tub, And I will be happy all day, With me rubby-dub, rubby-dub, dub. The queen on her golden throne, Will envy me here at me tub, For no one's as jolly as I, With me rubby-dub, rubby-dub, dub. Sure, what would I do at a dance? Or what would I do at a club? But here in me kitchen I'm queen With me rubby-dub, rubby-dub, dub. Oh, give me a nice little home, And plenty of suds in me tub, And I will be happy all day, With me rubby-dub, rubby-dub, dub! MATSY. Maw, don't you think it's most time fer us to be going?