Roland Scott and Tom Jennings were on hand that evening, when the young folks at The "put their heads together" for the selection of Mother Goose characters.  
Mrs. White "presided," and in the matter of reading rhymes and impersonating the characters, it must be admitted the young gentlemen had the advantage.
 
It was that the , or , would be presented "without labels," and the audience would be permitted to guess what they stood for in nursery .
 
"They won't need another guess on Dorothy's 'Bo Peep,'" said Tom. "That is more famous in history than that of the original shepherds. 'Bo Peep' is always a winner."
 
"I am sure," Dorothy, "they will know yours instantly. But it is a pity we have to make them living pictures. You will hardly be able to refrain from actually putting in your thumb if we provide one of Norah's pies."
 
"And what a darling 'Little Horner!'" added Tavia, for the characters were being selected with a view to making them as ridiculous as possible, and Tom would make a very funny "Jack Horner." Tom surveyed his thumb in .
 
Roland and Tavia were assigned "Jack Spratt and His Wife." Roland could be made up to look very lean, indeed, and Tavia was just enough to be "practical for building purposes." Her face was of the broad, good-natured type, and so her figure could readily be built up to correspond.
 
Nat insisted on being "Peter, Peter, Eater," and wanted to have the privilege of selecting the pretty Eva Brownlie to put in the pumpkin shell, "for," argued Nat, "that is the only way any fellow will ever be able to keep the wily Eva."
 
The character of "Old King Cole" was assigned to Ned, with the instructions that he should get his "fiddlers three."
 
"Also the pipe and bowl," insisted Nat; "and see to it that you don't take my pipe or the '' I brought from the doings the other night. You wouldn't carry one home yourself."
 
"I'll tell you a hard to guess," suggested Dorothy. "'The Beggars Coming to Town.' We could have half a dozen people in that, and Nat could bark behind the scenes."
 
"And we could have 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary,'" proposed Tavia. "Make Lily Bently take that."
 
"Lily is a real sweet girl," Mrs. White. "I hardly think she would like such a character."
 
"She would make a dear 'Miss Muffet,'" said Dorothy, "and I'm sure Nat can make up a wonderful spider—all strung by electrical wire, squirming and——"
 
"Wiggling," added Tom. "That ought to make a hit."
 
And so they went on, selecting from the familiar rhymes and their illustrations. There was some discussion as to just what this part of the entertainment should be called. Living pictures seemed to the young folks rather too ordinary, and it was finally decided to call it "Mother Goose ." A large frame was to be built, and Mrs. White offered to go to town to what costumes could be found appropriate to assist the young people's .
 
In order to give a dozen illustrations the same persons had to impersonate more than one character. When the last were being decided upon, Roland took "Jack Be Nimble," and to show how well he understood the part he jumped over the piano stool for the "candlestick." It was not a difficult matter at all, but Roland landed wrong and strained his ankle painfully.
 
At first he pretended it was nothing, and tried to laugh it off, saying if that was the only accident they encountered during the "show" they would indeed be fortunate.
 
But a strained ankle has the of getting more painful as the victim begins to realize that something hurts. In about an hour it becomes almost like a very bad toothache.
 
This was how it was with Roland, and on account of the accident the party was obliged to break up before all the arrangements had been completed, and Tom had to assist Roland back to The Elms.
 
"How unfortunate!" sighed Mrs. White. "Do you think it will be very bad, Ned?&............