. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . It was a little Christmas tree, with candles all aglow, And golden balls and silver stars, a bright and shining row. The children danced around it, and clapped their hands with glee; And not a child was happier than the little Christinas tree. ? z M. « ? V II. 25. But next week, stripped of all its gifts, and cast into the yard,It murmured with a little sigh: Now, surely this is hard !To give delight for but that night, And then to be forgot,Would seem to be for any tree /*i« A most unhappy lot! \~ 4, But Ned and Ted

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. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . It was a little Christmas tree, with candles all aglow, And golden balls and silver stars, a bright and shining row. The children danced around it, and clapped their hands with glee; And not a child was happier than the little Christinas tree. ? z M. « ? V II. 25. But next week, stripped of all its gifts, and cast into the yard,It murmured with a little sigh: Now, surely this is hard !To give delight for but that night, And then to be forgot,Would seem to be for any tree /*i« A most unhappy lot! \~ 4, But Ned and Ted and little Fredsoon spied it where it ! they cried, a mast! a mast!We 11 sail and sail away,And far across the Arctic seas Our gallant ship shall goTo find the seals and polar bearsAnd jolly Esquimaux. 198

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