Sleeping Beauty

     Place:  Castle.  King, Queen, and courtiers take their places
     within the circle.  The circle moves to waltz step, singing
     stanza I, of the dramatic game:—­

     The Princess was so beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, etc.

     At the conclusion of stanza I, the circle stops, the
     narrator steps forth and tells the story to the end of the
     words, “one had to stay at home.”

Scene i.  The Feast.  Twelve fairies enter, each presenting her gift and making a speech.  The wicked thirteenth comes in and pronounces her curse, and the twelfth fairy softens it to sleep.  The King proclaims his decree, that all spindles in the land be destroyed.

Scene ii.  The Attic.  Princess goes to the attic.  Old lady sits spinning.  Princess pricks herself and falls asleep.  Narration begins with “The King and Queen who had just come in fell asleep,” and ends with “not a leaf rustled on the trees around the castle.”  At the close of the narration, the circle moves, singing stanza 5 of the dramatic game:—­

          A great hedge grew up giant high, giant high, giant high,
          etc.

Scene ii.  The Castle Grounds.  The Prince talks to an old Man outside the castle.  The Prince comes to the hedge, which parts, and he enters.  The Prince wakens the Princess and the rest of the castle.  The narrator then closes with “By and by the wedding of the Prince ... to the end of their lives they lived happy and contented.”  The courtiers then form into couples, and the circle, in couples, follow the courtiers.  The Prince and Princess lead in a slow waltz while all sing stanza 10 of the dramatic game: 

          And all the people made merry then, merry then, merry then,
          etc.

Here we do not have complete dramatization, narration, or dramatic game.  Only three short parts are narrated, only three leading scenes are represented, and only three high points of narrative are depicted in the dramatic game.  The music, which the specialist in physical education can furnish, might be:—­

Galloping......................  Wild Horseman. 
Fairy Run......................  Chalef Book, p. 18. 
Climbing to Tower..............  Chaly, p. 10. 
Guy Walk Music. 
Phyllis........................  Seymour Smith. 
Bleking........................  Folk-Dance Book.

In connection with the dramatic game, there is only one tale in Grimm which contains a folk-game.  This tale is somewhat incomplete as it stands in Grimm.  It could become a tale suited for dramatization in the first grade, beginning the play with the folk-game.  An original, amplified version of this tale, The Little Lamb and the Little Fish is given in the Appendix.