THE HENDERSON GOLD LEAF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1890.
NDER WHAT I'M GOING TO GET!
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ONDER what I'm go
ing to get?
This is what beglna
to fret
All the little girls and
boys
tV. Christmas toys.
Vv-S Loez before the day
is near
aro alwaya sore
to hear
From -ach happy
.ousehold pet
otuUr what I'm
going to get f
II an 8 around tha
hou.se all day;
Don't scn to want to l lay.
Writes, with dirty IiOl-; pa.
linag note to Santi Clau.s:
llanos liis rtockinr ' '' a chair
Bo s to ilnd the jair:
By this question alway. met -"Wonder
w!At I'm ;;itiz t-j tr't?"
Chrwtmas day is ht-rt at Ixs: -All
our trouble no uri ijaxt.
rianta (Haas c-niu down last niht,
Spreading round him frh delight.
With a twinkle in liin eye,
"Ther:," said hr, "(deep on, young fry.
No more by the thought b-set
As to what you're KO'nK to get."
Up the chimney quirk he Koea,
Softly rubs his ruddy nose;
Yet mrthinks I hear him nigh
As he nods a last Kod-by,
And methinks I hear him Hay
Ere he vaninhes away,
fiay Trith Just the leabt regret
"Wonder what I'm going to get?"
Tom Mawow.
A - CHRISTMAS EVE IN IRELAND.
Christmas eve in the mountains of
milman. in tho (onntv Cork. Iro-
A blazing tnrf firo on the hearth-
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