Each one bore at the top a crayon sketch of a huge St.Bernard, with a Red Cross on its collar and shoulder-bags.

Underneath was a notice to the effect that an entertainment would be given the following Friday night in the college hall, a short concert, followed by a play called "The Princess Winsome's Rescue," in which _Hero_, the Red Cross dog recently brought from Switzerland, would take a prominent part.

The proceeds were to be given to the cause of the Red Cross.
That announcement alone would have drawn a large crowd, but added to that was the fact that twenty families in the Valley had each contributed a child to the fairy chorus or the group of flower messengers, and were thus personally interested in the success of the entertainment.
There was scarcely standing-room when the doors were opened Friday evening.

Papa Jack felt well repaid for his part in the hurried preparations when, after the musical part of the programme, he heard the buzz of admiration that went around the room, as the curtain rose on the first scene of the play.

It was the dimly lighted witch's orchard.
Across the stage, five feet back from the footlights, ran a snaky-looking fence with high-spiked posts.