HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1986-12-24, Page 1INCORPORATING -THE I3LYTH STANDA,CD-THE BAYFIELp BUGLE
No. 52 121 YEARS
WEDNESDAY, DECE1V1BgR 24, 1986 -
was the night before Christmas, when all through
house Not a creature was stirring, not even a
mouse ... The stockings were hung by the
chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon
would be there. The children were nestled all snug
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in their beds, While
And Mama in her
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Had just settled down
,When what to may
But a miniature
visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.
kerchief,
for a long
wondering
sleigh, and
reindeer. With a little old drivenso4tvely„.2.
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and I in my cap,
winter's nap.
eyes did appear,
eight tiny
and quick, I knew
in a moment is must be St. Nick. As drew in my head, and
was turning around,
St. Nicholas came
His eyes, how
His dimples,
checks were like roses,
He spoke not a word,
Down the chimney
with a bound.
they twinkled:
how merry! His
his nose like
but went
filled all
And
turned with a
sleigh, to his team gave a
they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim
straight to his work,
the stockings; then
jerk. He sprang to his
whistle, And away
ere he drove out of sight,
"MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND TO ALL
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TO ALL
A GOODNIGHT!"