A True Sketch of Christmas

I went the buisy street along

When everything was gay

For all the merry merry throng

Were keeping Christmas day.

Small hands were full of costly toys

Small feet to mirth kept time

Nor ever happier girls and boys

Were seen in any time.

Anon their came with feeble pace

A woman pale from care

With such a patient angle face

As gods poor sometimes were

With tender hand she led a child,

As wan as poorly drest

Not skipping singing, laughing wilder

Yet happy like the rest

For see the fingers bare and slight

Their Christmas gift can boast;

One stick of candy red and white,-

A penny it has cost

A single penny hardly spared.

Mid thousands flung away: --

Twas this one single child and mother shared

The Joys of Christmas day

Mr John Jardine Tilbury West

Trudell P.O. Ontario

Command you may your mind from play

Between two stools you come to the ground

Go where you may birds will be found John

Try and never throw yourself down John

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