CHRISTMAS CANDLES

Plays for Boys and Girls

BY

ELSIE HOBART CARTER

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1915

Copyright, 1915, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Published November, 1915

Printed, November, 1922

PRINTED IN THE U S A BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY N J

To the memory of W.N.H. who loved both plays and players

Thanks are due to The Century Company; Mr. Tudor Jenks; Miss K.A. Prichard; Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman; the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company; Colonel Thomas E. Davis; Miss Gertrude Hall; Harper & Brothers; the John Church Company; and the Universalist Publishing House, for permission to use copyrighted material, as particularly acknowledged throughout the book.