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Speaker 1: Narrator read by Pamela Krantz.

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Speaker 2: Characters, Christmas Gifts read by Charlotte Duckett.

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Speaker 3: Money read by Ruth Golding.

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Speaker 4: Christmas Tree read by Manda Friday.

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Speaker 5: Christmas Stocking read by Ginger Cucolo.

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Speaker 6: Plum Pudding read by Rapunzlina sir.

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Speaker 7: It read by Lyn Silva.

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Speaker 8: An Old Man read by David Olsen.

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Speaker 9: A Child read by Adililia.

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Speaker 10: King's Son read by David Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: Narrator read by Pamela Krantz. What makes Christmas Christmas a morality?

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Play the scene At the sides and back the stage

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is hung with curtains of a cold gray tone, lighter

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toward the top. In the upper left corner, a bright

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star is shining across the top. At the front hangs

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a dark gray curtain stenciled in a geometric design with

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dull gold paint. A dark line of drapery borders the

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sides of the proscenium. A little to the right center

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and more than half way back is a stone bench

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with a pine tree at each end. The light is

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diffused and dim to represent night in the distance. An

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almost imperceptible regular drumming is heard during the solemn parts

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of the play. This monotonous beat is always audible, determining

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the tempo of the movement. There enters right Christmas gifts,

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a coquettish elf like figure, and a gold tunic and

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a stiff skirt stopping at the knees. On her head

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is a gold cap like a cornucopia, and her stockings

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and slippers our gold. She enters dancing. She is followed

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by money Bag, who loiters sulkily behind, examining a little

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musical pipe which she carries. Money Bag is dressed in

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a loose brown bag, tied up about the neck with

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a hempen rope. Otherwise he looks a little like a brownie.

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Speaker 3: I are you so excited gifts?

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Speaker 2: Why it's Christmas Eve, mister money bag.

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Speaker 1: She curtsies mockingly.

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Speaker 3: Christmas is no better for gifts than any other time

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of year. What's the matter with birthdays?

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Speaker 2: Poor old money bag?

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Speaker 1: Kissing him and dancing off.

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Speaker 3: It's such a great drain on you, Yes it is.

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See how poor and thin I've grown a month ago.

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My sides were all bulgy with my savings.

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Speaker 2: But it's a season. I thrive.

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Speaker 3: You thrive, my lady, at my expense.

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Speaker 2: I want to dance. Money, dear, caressingly, play me a

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nice little tune whenever you want anything.

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Speaker 3: Then you're very nice to me with your money, DearS,

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you always have to rely on me for whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: Money makes the dance girl. Yes you're not a very

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esthetic creature.

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Speaker 1: Though, Money tosses his head angrily.

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Speaker 2: Oh, but we all love you. You're ever so much

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better than you look. Come play me a nice little

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tune to dance to. Tra la la la la, tra

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la la la la.

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Speaker 1: Still pouting and shaking his head.

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Speaker 3: I think my pipe is broken.

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Speaker 1: He plays a few discords.

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Speaker 2: Always broke when I ask you for anything, Come just

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one little tune.

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Speaker 1: Money begins to play and gifts starts for dance. Suddenly, abruptly,

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in the middle of a strain, Money breaks off and

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begins to examine his pipe with greater interest. Oh do play,

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stamping her foot.

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Speaker 2: It's so tantalizing money to have you give out this way.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's money this and money that, and you'll beckon

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call all the while. I can't keep on forever? Can I?

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With no pauses to catch my breath. It's hard work

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to keep time all the time.

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Speaker 2: There's a good old money bag kissing him a nice

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old money bag. Of course, you have to pretend that

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times are hard.

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Speaker 1: Money grunts, and begins to play m After a few hours,

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he again stops abruptly on a high note and falls

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to examining his pipe.

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Speaker 2: You always give out this way at the crucial moment,

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dear money bag, just one more little strain.

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Speaker 3: The strains too much for me.

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Speaker 2: How stingy you are. And your music is pretty poor too.

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Speaker 3: I noticed it's good enough for your dancing.

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Speaker 2: I'd dance to a different tune if I could. Aily,

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it's my artistic temperament anyway, which furnishes.

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Speaker 3: All m oh tastey temperament? Indeed, when did that ever

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furnish anything but trouble? I'd like to know?

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Speaker 1: Enter left Christmas tree. He wears a short, flaring green

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tunic trimmed with horizontal evergreen bands, green knickers, brown stockings,

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and scarlet slippers. On his head is a peaked green cap.

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From time to time, electric lights shine out on the

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point of his cap and in the evergreen bands.

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Speaker 4: Here here you two squabbling again. Why it's Christmas Eve,

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the time for shouting and laughter? See how I shine?

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Speaker 1: The bulbs glow and flicker out.

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Speaker 2: He won't play for me?

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Speaker 4: Oh yes he will, and like a right good fellow too.

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Why one hour more and it will be Christmas, mister bagg,

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See how I shine with the festive spirit.

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Speaker 1: The lights glow a moment.

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Speaker 4: Now, if ever is the time to play, Come gifts.

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We'll have a little dance together.

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Speaker 1: They caper about, but Money continues to salt. Then examine

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his pipe.

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Speaker 4: Come, come money, What would gifts be without you?

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Speaker 1: She can expect no more of me gifts flinging arms

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round his neck.

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Speaker 2: Dear old money bag, you're too fickle, not in loving you.

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Speaker 4: This is the season of jollity. See how I shine?

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Speaker 3: The lights glow again, gass one short pace.

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Speaker 1: Then he begins to play. Gifts and tree join hands.

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Speaker 4: It's scandalous the way you treat him. You're so changeable.

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Speaker 2: You seem to forget the Christmas gifts must be all

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things to all men.

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Speaker 1: They dance presently. The music stops again on a high note.

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In the middle of.

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Speaker 2: A strain, Money is given out again.

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Speaker 1: A new tune starts up. Now early is stocking enters left.

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He wears a blue and white doublet and a square

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cap on his head. On the whole he resembles a

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checked pantaloon more than anything else. Stocking dances gaily while

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gifts and tree give him the floor.

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Speaker 2: Poor Stocking. It's very seldom money spends any effort on him.

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Speaker 4: You mean, it's very seldom money is ever spent on him.

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Women are so reckless in what they say.

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Speaker 1: Stocking stops breathless.

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Speaker 2: How well you dance tonight, Stocking.

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Speaker 5: On Christmas Eve? I always dance well. I'm dancing dreams

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into the heads of all the children. The stockings are

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hung by the chimney with care. You know, that's the

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very core of the whole thing. What would Christmas be

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without me? Why? I am Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Rubbish, old fellow. You're all right, of course, In fact,

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you play your part very nicely. But what would Christmas

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be without a tree? See how I shine.

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Speaker 1: The lamp's glow.

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Speaker 5: Sooner a Christmas any time without a tree than without

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a stocking. Why it's the whole joy of Christmas to

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hang up your stocking, have dreams dancing on your head

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all night, and dash down in the morning to pull

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out gifts.

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Speaker 2: There you are, It's gifts thereafter, What would an empty

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stocking be? It's gifts gifts, gifts that makes them happy.

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Speaker 1: Stocking is about to retort, but Tree pushes him aside.

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Speaker 4: There there don't quarrel. We all admit that Christmas would

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be a pretty slow thing without you stalking, and that

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you'd be a pretty disappointing fellow without gifts. You're both

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essential to Christmas.

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Speaker 5: I guess, so Christmas Eve and no stalking. Why it's inconceivable.

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Speaker 2: Whoever heard of a Christmas with no gifts? Why I

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enter every lowest hovel, bringing joy wherever I go, and

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spreading Christmas trere. I visit the richmond in his villa,

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and the convict in his prison, and the soldier in

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his trench. Everywhere I go, helping and sententiously, making all

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men brothers. The whole world becomes one vast fraternity under

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the charm of Christmas gifts. Wherever I look, I will

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see Christmas smiling.

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Speaker 4: See how I.

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Speaker 11: Shine the lamps flesh.

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Speaker 4: What is a home without me when Christmas dawns? Why

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I am the very center and symbol of joy round me.

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The family gather and look at me with smiling eyes.

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I am the shrine of Christmas. Christmas is Christmas without

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a single gift. If I stand shining by the hearth.

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Speaker 3: Where would you all be without me? Who ever heard

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of anyone's keeping Christmas without money? I may not make

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as much show as some of you here, but money

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is their biggest thing in life. What's a man without money?

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Where can he live? What can he eat? What can

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he do? Build? Canals and palaces and the great ships

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that sail on the sea. I wage war and bring

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back peace again. I wreck hospitals and bring men healing

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and comfort. Without me, the whole world would fall into chaos,

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and the race of men would perish Christmas without money?

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Speaker 5: Indeed, here comes plum Pudding. He has attended countless Christmas festivals.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but think of his reputation.

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Speaker 5: I'll admit that he is in averse to a little

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liquor and is often in his cups. But he is

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a man of the world and has seen life. He

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ought to know what makes Christmas Christmas. Let's lay the

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whole matter squarely before him and abide by his decision.

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Speaker 3: Yes, plum Pudding knows what's what? I agree, and.

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Speaker 4: I and I enter left.

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Speaker 1: Plum Pudding. He is a portly old gentleman, dressed in

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black velvet with red stockings and a red sash.

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Speaker 5: Good evening, mister pudding. We're having a little discussion here

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about who's most essential to Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Now I just tell them, please, what Christmas would be

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without a tree?

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Speaker 11: See how I shine the lamps glow?

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Speaker 2: Hum, mister pudding, did you ever hear of a Christmas

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without gifts?

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Speaker 1: She takes his arm coquettishly and smiles up at him.

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Speaker 6: Well, no, of course she didn't.

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Speaker 3: Where would they all be, sir? Without me?

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Speaker 4: Put them all straight?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 4: See how I shine.

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Speaker 1: The lamp's glow.

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Speaker 5: Did you ever hear of a child who forgot to

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hang up his stalking on Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 6: There's a good deal of wisdom in all these claims.

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Christmas would indeed be a poor thing without stalking.

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Speaker 11: See how I shine the lamp's glow.

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Speaker 6: A tree is very important gifts, pulls his arm, and

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no one would be willingly forgotten by gifts?

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Speaker 1: He smiles at her.

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Speaker 6: Without money?

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Speaker 3: Yes, where would they all be without money?

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Speaker 7: Eh?

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Speaker 3: Where?

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Speaker 6: Indeed?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Well, well, well.

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Speaker 6: Well what is it that makes Christmas Christmas?

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Speaker 11: What?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 6: What is it possible? You don't know?

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Speaker 1: I'll shake their heads gifts, smiling at him, What.

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Speaker 6: Do you think think, I don't think I know.

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Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh oh, what.

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Speaker 6: Is the road to a man's heart? Why his stomach?

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Of course? Do you see plum pudding is what makes

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Christmas Christmas? Didn't you all refer.

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Speaker 1: To me plum putting turns and struts off right in

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a superior manner.

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Speaker 4: Always puts himself above everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Too much ego, my dear.

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Speaker 5: Tree, always overestimating his own importance.

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Speaker 3: The way till a man's heart is through his puss.

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Why I can tell.

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Speaker 1: You A gay tinkling sound is heard, and a light,

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yellow clad figure enters right. She is dancing and is

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peaking imaginary flowers. Spirit.

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Speaker 12: I am young into bright and the flowers, and my hair,

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my high food, so cheery, my high bed, a brown fur.

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Speaker 3: This is no one I know.

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Speaker 1: No I spirit, still gathering imaginary flowers and weaving them

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into wreaths.

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Speaker 7: Morning glories and roof and hair bills growing with daisies.

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Speaker 3: I don't see anything growing under.

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Speaker 7: The Christmas star.

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Speaker 3: She thinks that'd perish the salt.

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Speaker 7: Oh sweet flowers for my garland, the rose, the lily,

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and the stately dahlia tree stepping up to her.

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Speaker 11: See how I shine lamps glow.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no drawing back.

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Speaker 7: You're no child of the wood and metal. So much

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dress being sadders, my footstep, saloon, the stars in the

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sky hoppy. When I see.

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Speaker 5: She'll be asking us to have a cup of moonlight.

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Speaker 3: Next she's mad.

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Speaker 2: I'll speak to her. What's your name?

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Speaker 7: I see quit a be training sweet from the torn

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so it touches my heart, Little big.

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Speaker 2: Lovebird, Well, where did you come from?

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Speaker 7: I can't say the exact place. I have come from

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the mountains of the shed Nevada, down through a great

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sweep of its country. So I wandered along the banks

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of the Ohio and touched the heels again, and passed

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into the mist, over the waves, into the dermoil of

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the nations.

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Speaker 3: But where is your home?

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Speaker 1: Singing is? She pleads her wreaths.

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Speaker 7: When the sun shines south, the springs my cup, and

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I hear from the trash that her nestling is flow.

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Speaker 3: You see, she won't tell.

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Speaker 7: I pass here and there ludge in the hearts of men,

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and they reach them and set my magic on children.

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Speaker 5: Aren't you cold out the night with that thin dress?

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Speaker 7: The December winds are blowing down from the great ice

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pue in the north. But I am not cold at all,

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for my heart warms me.

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Speaker 4: This is no time to be thinking about yourself. This

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is Christmas night, don't you know that the time when

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there's love and goodwill among men, and everyone is giving

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himself enjoy and service for others. See how I shine.

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Speaker 1: The lamps gleam. The spirit looks about her bewildered.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is expected to give a little flowers.

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Speaker 2: They're only in your minds enjoyed laughter.

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Speaker 3: They don't cost anything, they're just in the heart, said the.

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Speaker 1: People, holding out his cap to her.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is expected to give a little.

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Speaker 7: That's much too small to contain my gifts.

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Speaker 1: The spirit disappears.

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Speaker 2: Who ever saw the like such as Some folk.

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Speaker 1: Have enter right, an old man with his little grandson.

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They're very poor and wretched. The old man carries on

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his back a sack which contains all his possessions, and

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the little boy has a swag on the end of

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a stick. They come in and rest themselves and their

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burdens on the bench.

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Speaker 8: I'm old, old by a hundred years and wearied out.

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Yet it's near midnight, and we must be getting on

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to some shelter.

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Speaker 9: Half our musty good grandfather.

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Speaker 8: It's a long way, child, that the poor must travel,

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a long and weary way.

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Speaker 1: Money slinking away, there beggars gift coming forward.

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Speaker 2: It's Christmas Eve, my good man. On the hour of

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midnight is nea I was coming to seek you. I'm gifts.

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Speaker 8: Christmas is for the rich, bitterly, not for us poor folk,

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driven forth on the road to celebrate with gifts.

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Speaker 11: See how I shine the lamps gleam.

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Speaker 4: On Christmas Eve? Even the poor man can bear home

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of balsam from the hills and light a taper in

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its branches to the blessed child to shine into the

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eyes of his own children.

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Speaker 8: Old man turning away, it's a roof tree that I'm

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lacking this Christmas Eve, young man.

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Speaker 5: But though the poor man has no home, he has

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yet a fire where the Christmas stocking may hang tonight.

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Speaker 8: The highway is my hearth.

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Speaker 1: Friend, enter left the spirit and touches the old man

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on the sleeve.

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Speaker 7: Father, I to have come along road on Christmas night,

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and I'm going alonger Still shall we not go one together.

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Speaker 8: Ah company on the long dark road? That's something, now,

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my friends.

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Speaker 9: Where did you get those flowers?

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Speaker 2: Mad?

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Speaker 11: Mad?

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Speaker 3: Mad?

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Speaker 8: You see we're very poor, my grandson and I. We're

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too poor to keep Christmas.

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Speaker 9: I didn't see any flowers, grandfather, as we came along.

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But now, why are they going everywhere?

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Speaker 8: And what a fine smell they have?

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Speaker 4: Can't you see how she's fooling you? Where are her flowers? Now?

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Speaker 8: But can a fine lady like you be seen on

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the road with poor folks like us.

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Speaker 7: Jing skins with him in his manger, Then.

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Speaker 8: Let us be getting along, For the road is dark

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and difficult.

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Speaker 7: Bright with moonlight, and the hedges are thick with daces

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and hairbells, and the meadows are dotted with buttercups. We

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shall pass orchards too, with plums and peaches, and big

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and little apples, and hanging gripes on the trellis incredulously.

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Speaker 8: This reminds me of the day is when I too

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was young.

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Speaker 7: And unwearied, and before us faith will run like a

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welder in the mountains, Oh ray, ridden wealth, hard a

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flowers on my bro hand, bear ridden bees to flame

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in my home.

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Speaker 1: The old man and the child go out, left with

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a confident air, accompanied by the spirit. As they go,

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they do not heed the others.

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Speaker 2: She carries a high head now and despises us as

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if you were a betses.

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Speaker 3: There they go, a couple of poor doft shadows, begging

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along the road, a reproach to good paper, who are

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enjoying Christmas.

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Speaker 1: A cloud of incense rises behind the spirit and the

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old man and child.

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Speaker 5: Don't you see a mist rising there?

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Speaker 4: Odd and smell a holy fire?

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Speaker 2: And together they've passed into the mist.

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Speaker 3: And who is she anyway? And what was her business

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here on Christmas night?

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Speaker 4: She's only a poor mad thing with her flowers and

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her orchards and her moonlight. It's an ill time to

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be meeting creatures like that the holy Christmas eve.

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Speaker 2: The old man's coat was very poor, indeed he needed

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a new one.

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Speaker 4: His hood was all tattered.

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Speaker 5: And his stockings were only rags.

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Speaker 2: But he refuses our assistance. That's the way of the poor.

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They'd rather freeze before our eyes than eases by taking help.

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Speaker 5: He listened to her quick enough to empty promises and

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vain hopes. Heild out with all her talk about flowers.

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Speaker 1: Yes see how I He jumps aside, startled and cries.

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Speaker 4: Out, she has taken away my shoes.

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Speaker 1: The others look on in amazement.

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Speaker 2: A pox on her for taking away the good old

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ways of celebrating Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly, the King's son appears, left on the highway. He

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is dressed in a short purple tunic and wears a

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golden circlet on his brow. Money immediately runs forward to

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salute him.

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Speaker 4: Money always follows, and the footsteps of the great.

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Speaker 1: All stand in the way of the King's son saluting him.

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He looks peevish and is evidently annoyed at the interruption.

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Speaker 10: What do you want of me?

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Speaker 2: It was to you, sire, that we were about to proceed.

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It was to you, first of all in the wide realm,

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that we would bring our Christmas greetings.

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Speaker 10: And who were you? Pray?

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Speaker 2: I am Christmas gifts with my faithful attendant, money bag,

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and we have saved for you the rarest and vest.

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Speaker 10: I don't want any more gifts already the palace is

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filled up with them, Birthday gifts, Christian gifts, Christmas gifts, gifts,

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gifts till my eyes are tired of look, Sire, you

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are right. I am the only true symbol of Christmas.

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I the Christmas stocking. You hang me up in the

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chimney corner, and all night long dreams and fancies dance

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over your head. I'm much too old for such nonsense.

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Why I haven't hung up my socking for ever so long?

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Speaker 4: Sire, I am the Christmas tree. See how I shine?

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Speaker 1: He hesitates to try, but the lights gleam out again.

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Speaker 4: I am the shrine of Christmas. On Christmas morning, the

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family gather round me.

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Speaker 10: I'm tired of Christmas trees. I have them every year,

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and they're always the same. All these things are nothing

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to me, For in my heart there is a great heaviness.

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What is it that makes Christmas Christmas? I have set

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out tonight on the great highway of the realm to

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see whether I shall find Christmas there. I have left

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my father's house, where I walk between walls of beat

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and bronze, lighted with silver lamps, and where my father

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sits on a high throne with a crown on his

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head and a mastiff at his feet. In the courtyard,

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festive preparations are going forth, and there is a great

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coming in of kings and princes. But Christmas joy has

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deserted our palace. I remember the time when my heart

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was high on Christmas night, but now everything is sodden

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and dull.

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Speaker 1: Enter left, Spirit dancing.

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Speaker 7: No gem and no gold. Can my speit breass, no

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mish and no net stay the wing of my flight?

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Speaker 10: Who is she?

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Speaker 1: He goes toward her spirit, gathering flowers and singing.

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Speaker 7: The summer lifts a when the harvests thrive, the lark

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song is heard, and the shadows are long.

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Speaker 10: There is a princess in the court who has come

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up from the south and sits pining for me by

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the window. But I'll have none of her. And now

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when I put out my arms to you, you do

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not come.

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Speaker 7: All men, have a deep durst for joy.

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Speaker 10: Come to my father's house, and we will dance together

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in the gardens, you and I playmates.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, no, in palaces there are sad hearts. Where then,

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with the duties of Christmas, I must be happy and free.

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Speaker 10: But I will make it different. You may come and

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go as you will, and you may have a great

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toll gendarme to keep away anyone who annoys you. And

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you can console yourself by giving to the poor who

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are always near the golden gate.

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Speaker 1: Spirit dancing away and singing, I.

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Speaker 7: Fine, and I sigh for no caif and no gold.

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The glow window west is treasure.

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Speaker 1: To me the spirit disappears.

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Speaker 4: It does a heap of good to talk to her.

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She won't even listen to the king's son.

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Speaker 8: Enter left, the old man and the boy alas joy

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caught up my sleeve and disappeared.

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Speaker 10: It is the only thing which will not dwell in palaces.

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Speaker 8: She was taken away from us as everything else is.

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Speaker 4: Taken, because there was nothing there.

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Speaker 1: To the old man, she and.

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Speaker 4: Her flowers were an empty show to delude poor daft

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folks like you.

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Speaker 8: With her, the way was not dark while she ran

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beside us, we walked in moonlight. Then she ran ahead.

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She would wait for us, she said, at the cross

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roads further on, and she vanished like dew. But when

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she was gone, our sorrow returned and the weariness of

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the way, and we could not see ahead.

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Speaker 10: The poor too.

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Speaker 8: She held in her hands joy like a great light.

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I saw it shining there, and it vanished again.

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Speaker 3: My light.

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Speaker 4: She stole it from me for a little while.

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Speaker 2: What did I tell you? Empty promises? He thought she

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would wait for his coming at the crossroads.

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Speaker 4: Her blossoms bloomed only a moment, old father. Then she

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deserted you, leaving you on the road alone.

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Speaker 10: And she left me too.

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Speaker 2: Our promises were much more substantial. But you turned from

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them to her flowers. Did you touch them, then? Did

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you take them in your hands?

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Speaker 8: What I see is mine. She offered fair sight to

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her eyes, and gentle thoughts to our hearts, such as

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belonged to the poor, and to the children, and to poets.

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The king and the rich hold their possessions in their hands,

474
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But who can play the tyrant with the eye and

475
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the thought of a poor man?

476
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Speaker 10: Hark again, she is filling the air with her sweet sounds.

477
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Speaker 1: All stop and listen. Spirit sings in the distance and

478
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does not seem My.

479
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Speaker 7: Voice spets the voice of the forest and glove. But

480
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the sun never shines, and sunda gold of flurry.

481
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Speaker 10: It is strange. Her figure is not here, yet the

482
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sound comes to us like the film of a dream.

483
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Speaker 8: The form too is here if you see it.

484
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Speaker 1: Spirit still in the distance.

485
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Speaker 7: My life is a joy that no mystery cloud, with

486
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no pain. Then no takes I keep and the cat.

487
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Speaker 10: This night, my longing has been fulfilled, and the poor

488
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have been happy.

489
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Speaker 2: This is no place for us.

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Speaker 1: Gifts, money, tree and stockings slink away left as the

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spirit continues to sing, still in the distance, my.

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Speaker 7: Fancy, my ballace, my joy, my chroll, My dreams are

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my real and my gardlets my crown.

494
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Speaker 10: Though she speeds over the earth tonight her spirit has

495
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found its resting place, for she dwells in our hearts.

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Speaker 1: The drum beats heavily, twelve times curtain and of what

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makes Christmas Christmas