There was a good a 1 of sleepiness nted on the stage, bat none to be noticed in the audience, during the performance of the Christmus entertain. Trent by the children of Union Church Sunday School in the Church Hall on Friday afternoon. Acting seems to come naturally to children, and perhaps to Shanghai children more readily than to those at home, where confidence and self-possession are Hot so ord Land of Nod' was brought back by Dr. Ferguson, the School from America, the last place one imagine so deowsily named " piece to come from. In point of fact, and in despite of its name, there is a good deal fof "lmstle" about the cantata, on the part of such elf friends as Mother Goose, Dame Fortune, Jack O'Dreams, and Prince Charming, not to mentions fairies and hobgublins, and also newcomers as the King of the Laud of Nod, and the! sleepy little folk whom he entertains. Ltis a pretty little play, and was very brightly and cleverly done. the youngsters generally speaking their lines with great Glearness and bringing out the points with intelligent eiocation. The dresses were handsome and there was graceful dance introduced; a " preliminary and also as a finale to the main entertainment fa chorus was given. The second was a tery quaint action song with a pleasant:
melody. and was sung by a party of little © mothers" sul still tinier *'small folk" on whom it hud to be impressed that bed-oime had come.
An eneord was demanded and given.
The entertainment would not have been complete thout the appearance on the platform of the. Rev. C. E. Darwent, who in original way, managed, among other things to convey the thankaof those present to the ladies who arranged the enter ment—Mrs. Griffin, Miss May Jansen, Miss Skinner, Miss Black, and the (2) Misses Law—to Mr. Roland Macdonald, who had disguised bimself.as the King of Nod, and to Dr. Ferguson. The cheers of the audience brought a kind of promise that the entertainment will be peated.
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