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' JACK AS 13 JILL.
Jade and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jili came tumbling after.

Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper;
Dame Jill had job to plaster his knob,
With vinegar and brown paper,

[A Utile girl as Jill is dressed in a gay calico dress, sun-bonnet, with a
Iin pail in her hand, lying with her face downward on an inclined board
as the hill, while Jack, dressed as a farmer's boy, lies in the same position
below Jill. They both fa ll {the tin pail making, of course, a great noise)
and scamper hum?.]

T i m OLD WOMAN IN THE SHOE,
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
She whipped them all round and sent them to bed.
[A large, frame is made in the shape of a shoe covered with black
material. Behind it are children of all sizes, while some are crmvling
on the lop, out of the toe, and under it. The. old woman has on a gray
wig, shawl and an old fashioned straw hat, and with a big switch in her
hand} finds it quite diffundt to keep the children in order.]

TABLEAU—CINDERELLA’S SLIPPER.
ITliis beautiful tableau nrny lx; represented in three ur five scenes, and afford?; fine
opportunity for dress effect.]
SCENE I.
C IN D E R E LLA meanly clad, the sisters and Prince in costliest
One of the sisters is eagerly bent on forcing her foot
attire.
into the slipper.
A very large shoe, which she has just vacated, is on the floor beside