These may be given either in tableaux, in pantomime, or the performers may trust to the inspiration of the moment for words, and fill each part as perfectly as possible. Proverbs are given in a single scene. Charade words must be divided into syllables, each one represented by a tableau or scene, and the whole given as a final scene.

Patchwork

Patchwork Makes three pretty scenes. The first scene is

Patch. - Two little girls, dressed in expensive costumes, in the prevailing style, stand as if just meeting. They wear jaunty hats and gloves, and carry parasols. Both are laughing, and pointing to a third little girl, who stands near them, hiding her face, as if ashamed. Her dress is poor, — calico sunbonnet, coarse boots; and upon a dress of some very light material is a large, square patch of dark stuff.

Work. — A very pretty tableau can be made for this scene by representing several trades, each at a small bench or table, — the blacksmith hammering a horseshoe, the dairymaid making butter, the cobbler mending a shoe, the milliner trimming a bonnet, the carpenter planing a board, the cook plucking a fowl. In short, as many figures as the size of the stage will admit, all busy at some work. The costumes can be picturesque.

Patchwork. - The scene, a farm-kitchen, with several figures. Centre of background is the mother rocking a baby; over the cradle is a patchwork quilt. The grandmother, right of foreground, is sewing upon a piece of patchwork ; and at her feet a very little girl is putting two patches together, with a very big needle, very long stitches, and a face puckered up, as if very intent upon the work.