item: #1 of 16 id: 10541 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade date: None words: 24867 flesch: 99 summary: They _are_ for the time the kings, the fairies, and the heroes that they picture in their imaginations. THE CROW AND THE FOX _Suggested by Aesop's Fable, The Crow and the Fox._ keywords: alligator; columbus; countryman; emperor; karen; king; man; nodding; queen; second; thou; wicked; wife cache: 10541.txt plain text: 10541.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 14508 author: Knapp, Shepherd title: The Christmas Dinner date: None words: 8802 flesch: 92 summary: A good many wonderful things happen to you when you grow old, and even if my old body does get pretty tired sometimes, and you children think perhaps that grandfather looks very stupid, sitting so quiet by the fire-side here, I'm often thinking, inside, of splendid things that little boys and girls don't know anything about. Then, close behind one another, they go under the table, and when they come out at the other end, Father and Grandfather have turned into little boys, and Mother and Grandmother have turned into little girls. keywords: children; gertrude; grandfather; mother; table; walter cache: 14508.txt plain text: 14508.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 14785 author: Knapp, Shepherd title: Down the Chimney date: None words: 4857 flesch: 96 summary: Keep your eyes open to see what will happen next, for here comes_ JACK FROST, _who is dressed all in white. Then_ JACK FROST _continues_: keywords: chimney; fairies; grandmother; snow; wind cache: 14785.txt plain text: 14785.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 14786 author: Knapp, Shepherd title: Up the Chimney date: None words: 6792 flesch: 98 summary: Then_ JACK _reads_: Fairy spectacles are we; Put us on, and you shall see Things you never saw before, Easy as saying four-times-four. What are you thinking of, Doctor John? I am thinking, _says_ FATHER _smiling_, that if you hadn't come, we should have missed you dreadfully. keywords: claus; jack; mary; mother; polly; santa cache: 14786.txt plain text: 14786.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 16347 author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia title: Miscellanea date: None words: 60193 flesch: 86 summary: The Jew now became fidgety, and he hastened down to the Khoja's door, at which he knocked, and entering, said, Good-day, Khoja Effendi. So they came to the Khoja and said, The moon is on the wane, Khoja Effendi, and we shall soon have a new one; what will be done with the old moon? keywords: children; clothes; cousin; day; days; dead; dear; donkey; door; effendi; eyes; flowers; garden; george; good; hand; head; home; house; khoja; left; life; look; maggie; man; manners; men; mother; night; palm; parsnip; people; peregrine; peter; place; princess; queen; room; round; sea; tale; things; thought; time; tree; water; way; wife; wood; years; young cache: 16347.txt plain text: 16347.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 16379 author: Stevenson, Augusta title: Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two date: None words: 15179 flesch: 104 summary: The_ KING _and_ PRINCE _come from the castle. [_The_ KING _sits on a cushion in the great hall. keywords: come; king; man; peter; pocahontas; prince; time; wolf cache: 16379.txt plain text: 16379.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 18131 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: The Rescue of the Princess Winsome: A Fairy Play for Old and Young date: None words: 4610 flesch: 99 summary: Princess sings_ _ Princess turns to Titania._ _ keywords: knight; love; ogre; princess; spin; thou; thy; witch cache: 18131.txt plain text: 18131.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 20425 author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia title: The Peace Egg and Other tales date: None words: 33607 flesch: 87 summary: [_Enter_ FATHER CHRISTMAS.] FATHER CHRISTMAS Here comes I, old Father Christmas; Welcome, or welcome not, I hope poor old Father Christmas Will never be forgot! Besides getting everything belonging to your dress together _yourself_ and in _good time_, I advise you to have _a little hand-basket_, such as you may have used at the seaside or in the garden, and into this to put _pins_, _hair-pins_, _a burnt cork_, _needles and thread_, _a pair of scissors_, _a pencil_, _your part_, _and any small things you may require_. keywords: captain; children; christmas; dear; doctor; dragon; father; fool; gentleman; george; good; hand; harry; head; man; mrs; patty; peace; people; play; robin; room; round; sarah; skratdj; snap; stage; tell; thought; time; way; wife cache: 20425.txt plain text: 20425.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 27764 author: Holbrook, Florence title: Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades date: None words: 24671 flesch: 103 summary: _ Come into my house, little children! Hillo, hilloo, hillo, hilloo, Little mother, where are you? _ keywords: children; cinderella; come; day; dear; eyes; father; gingerbread; good; goose; gretel; home; hood; hänsel; little; man; mother; tell; thou; time cache: 27764.txt plain text: 27764.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 28415 author: Lyng, Mary Ella title: History Plays for the Grammar Grades date: None words: 12692 flesch: 88 summary: The lives of great men and women represent great things. Lives of great men, all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us-- Footprints on the sands of time. keywords: act; columbus; congress; end; fremont; general; introduction; lee; lincoln; man; men; people; queen; south; war; washington cache: 28415.txt plain text: 28415.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 34473 author: Hill, Ruth title: Robert E. Lee: A Story and a Play date: None words: 9632 flesch: 85 summary: For four years, the life of General Lee was a part of all men's history. General Lee called upon all the citizens to give up all the guns they owned and saw that factories turned out as much ammunition as possible. keywords: college; general; good; lee; men; robert; scott; soldier; time; virginia; war; work cache: 34473.txt plain text: 34473.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 34763 author: Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady title: The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers date: None words: 11652 flesch: 103 summary: [_NURSE goes off R. MUFFET goes on eating her curds and whey. DOG [_to_ CAT]. keywords: bailiff; cat; gander; kitty; lucy; mrs; muffet; nurse; polly cache: 34763.txt plain text: 34763.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 35688 author: Gerstenberg, Alice title: Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" date: None words: 15644 flesch: 99 summary: [_Sees ALICE; others look around, all bow. She sneezes--FROG sneezes and ALICE sneezes. keywords: alice; course; duchess; gryphon; hare; hatter; king; march; mock; queen; rabbit; red; time; turtle; white cache: 35688.txt plain text: 35688.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 36195 author: Rice, K. McDowell (Katharine McDowell) title: Dr. Hardhack's Prescription: A Play for Children in Four Acts date: None words: 8041 flesch: 85 summary: --_Miss Josephine M. Taft, Greenville, N. H._ Thank you for a play which is so bright and charming and so full of good wholesome fun. --_The Outlook._ We heartily commend the capital little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram,' as a very natural and amusing comedietta, which is quite within the acting capacities of every-day boys and girls. keywords: "--_miss; aunt; comedy; doctor; emily; good; hardhack; mamma; mass; mrs; play cache: 36195.txt plain text: 36195.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 39022 author: Lobingier, Elizabeth Miller title: The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children date: None words: 34720 flesch: 88 summary: _ GOLIATH _looks surprised and disgusted when he sees_ DAVID. Through dramatization children give expression to these ideas in the light of their own interpretation. keywords: brothers; children; daniel; dramatization; esther; father; god; good; joseph; king; lord; man; people; pharaoh; play; scene; servants; son; story; thee; thou; thy; unto cache: 39022.txt plain text: 39022.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 58546 author: Carter, Elsie Hobart title: Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls date: None words: 72863 flesch: 98 summary: [_Enter_ CROSS JACOB _(L.). _ TIBBIE _chooses gravely, then speaks with her mouth full. keywords: babushka; boys; children; christmas; claus; day; dear; dick; door; dot; exit; father; fire; gillian; good; hands; head; home; house; lady; little; look; marie; mistress; mother; mrs; myles; peter; play; poor; prince; rafe; right; roger; sally; santa; sir; stage; table; ted; tell; thee; things; think; tibbie; time; toinette; tom; tree; way; white; window; wish; work cache: 58546.txt plain text: 58546.txt