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!SIXTEEN PATES
SDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933
THE SIGNAL PRINTING 00., LIMITED, Putman.
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-•: "There Was an old woman
•q Who lived in a shoe,
Who had so many children
She didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth
Without any bread
- And whipped them all soundly
»•_ And sent them to bed."
Now it happened that Santa Claus,
Passing that way,
Peeped into the shoe top
And saw how they lay—
With their round, rosy faced
All shining with tears,
And resolved to do something
To comfort the dears
So while they were sleeping
In woful array,
He bundled those children
Right into his sleigh;
And cracking his whip
As his reindeers sped forth,
Away they all flew
To his home in the Nortb.
Speakin' o' Christmas
Breezes blowin' middlin' brink,
Snowflakes thro' the air a -whisk,
Falun' kind o' soft an' light,
pot enough to make things white,
But just sorter siftin' down
loo's to cover up the brown
Of the dark world's rugged ways
'N' make things look like holidays.
Not smoothed over but jest specked,
Sorter strainin' fur effect,
An' not quite a-gittin' through
What it started in to do.
Mercy sakes! it.does seem qpeer
Christmas day is 'most nigh here. -
Somehow it don't seem to me
Christmas like it used to be,—
• Christmas with its ice an' snow,
Christmas of the long ago.
You could feel its stir an' hum
Weeks an' weeks before it come; _
Somethin' in the atmosphere
Told yon when the day was near.
Didn't need no almanacs; L N
That was one o' Nature's fee's. -
Every cottage decked out gay—
Cedar wreathe an' holly spray— ;;• ,
An' the stores, how they were drest,
Tinsel tell you couldn't rest;"4".444
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..-**:What wanders he showed them,'''
- Such beautiful toys!
! dolls tor the girls,` �1'
Ani suit drums for the bgya f _.p_ 7"-''''---
7'44k 'Ike farms and such stables,
mogkeys and bears, - , f , -
Every winder fixed up pat,
Candy canes, an' things like that;
Noah's arks, an' guns, an' dolls,
An' all kinds o' fol -de -rola.
Then with frosty bells a -chime,
Slidin' down the hills o' time, �'"►,:
Right amidst the fun an' din
Christmas come a-bustlin' in, 1t
.lnd whish,.shad seep
All the won lffl i titin
Which each winter, at Christmas,
Dear Santa Claus brings,
He gave them, to -make
Their enchantment complete,
Just all of the candy
And cake they could eat.
Hale and hearty, stco '
' ''Ailint was • c a
fn' fine, ,
-- Frozen mill -ponds all aahine,
Snow knee-deep an'
When they told of their travels,
Their mother, it seems,
Only•laughed, and declared
They were nothing but dreams.
I am sure, though, things must
Have occurred as they say,
Else why were they, all of them,
DI the next day t
—Anna Marion Smith, in St. Nicholas (1906).,,
Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wencestas Iook'd out
On the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay around abort, •
Deep and crisp, and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night, •
Though the frost was crud,
When a poor man came in sight,
Geth'ring winter fuel. •
"Hither, page, and stand by me,
If thou know'at it, telling,
Yonder peasant, who is be?
: • m Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives • good league henee,
Underneath the mountain;
Might sgalnat the forest teoee
By ?faint Agnes'. fountain"
"Bring me flesh, and bring me wins,
Bring me pine logs hither;
Thou and i will see him dine,
When we hear them thither."
Page and monarch forth they went,
Wirth they went together;
Through the rude wind's wild lament,
And the bitter weather.
In his master's step he trod,
Where the snow lay dinted ;
Heat was In the very sod
Which the saint had printed.,
Therefore, Christian men, be roti,
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Wealth or rank possessing,
• _ • !e who now will Mew the poor.
J. 1 Shall your'/yea And bleodng.
UMI, ye happy girls and boys,
Lend a hand for Christmas joys.
Christmas -time is well begun
With our jolly loads of fun.
Blow the horn and scoot the sled
Til it's time to go to bed.
Christmas must not pass away
�!* Without sports both glad and gay.
Seemin' jest to lay in wait,
Beggin' you to come an' skate.
An' you'd git your gal an' go,
Stumpin' cheerily thro' the snow,
Feelin' pleased an' skeert an' warm
'Cause she had a -holt yore arm,
Why, when Christmas come in, we
Spent the whole glad day in glee,
Ravin' fun an' feastin' high
An' some Courtin' on the sly.
Bustin' in some neighbor's door
An' then -suddenly, before
He would give his voice a lift,
Yellin' at him,."Christmas gift."
Now Rich things are never -heard,
"Merry Christmas" is the word.
But it's only change o' name,
An' means givin' jest the same.
There's too many new -styled ways
Now about the holidays.
I'd jest like once tnore to see
Christmas like it used to be!
—Paul Laurence Dunbar
Silent Night
Silent night, holy night, '
All Is calm, all is bright;
Round you Virgin Mother and Child!
17017 infant, so tender MO mild,
Sleep In heavenly peace,
Sleep In heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds pray at the sight;
Glories stream from heaven. afar,
Heav'nly hosts sing Alleluia.
Comes the glorious morn, -
Comes the glorious morn.
Silent night, holy night,
••• - -- "_• en high, love's pare ttght; -. ','•••
• — Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace, -
Pease and heavenly love,
114eace and heavenly love. • 's`"
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