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His reindeer team a jinking
And their hool-beats falling fast.
Ilis furs are black with chimney soot,
His beard is white with .snow,
His sleigh is full of pretty toys,
You ought to hear him go 1
He lights upon the sleety roof
And doesn't stop a minute,
lie jumps upon the chimney tup,
And down he plumps within it,
He pauses 011 the hearthstone,
And he ti:.kes a little peep
To sec if all the curly heads
Arc safe in bed asleep.
He goes about 011 tiptoe,
Nor makes a hit of noist,
He fills up all the stockings
With sugar plums and toys ;
And then he gives a little laugh,
Pops up the chimney quick.
And off he jingles on the wind,
The jolly old Saint Nick.
OUR CHRISTMAS.
W E didn’t have much of a Christmas,
My papa and Rosie and me,
For mamma Jd gone out to the prison
To trim up the poor prisoners' tree;
And Ethel, my big grown-up sister,
Was down at the ’syhim all day,
To help at the great turkey dinner,
