door, outside the room in which the audience is seated.

When quite ready, some one must open the door, when the doorway will
make a kind of frame to the living picture.

It is always well to have a curtain if you can; a sheet makes an
excellent one. Two children standing upon chairs hold it up on each
side, and at a given signal drop it upon the floor, so that, instead
of the curtain rising, it drops. When it has been dropped, the two
little people should take the sheet corners in their hands again, so
that they have only to jump upon the chairs when it is time to hide
the picture.

Of course, these instructions are only for living pictures on a
very small scale; much grander arrangements will be needed if the
performance is to take place before any but a "home audience."

As I told you before, comic living pictures are the easiest to perform
on account of the dresses being easier to make, but there are other
living pictures which are easier still, and which will cause a great
deal of fun and merriment. They are really catches, and are so simple
that even very little children can manage them.

You can arrange a program, and make half a dozen copies to hand round
to the audience.

The first living picture on the list is "The Fall of Greece" and
sounds very grand, indeed; but when the curtain rises (or rather, if
it is the sheet curtain, drops), the audience see a lighted candle set
rather crookedly in a candlestick and fanned from the background so as