Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . THE JOURNEYS BEGINNING. WHEN the good saint sails from the very northTo the shore where his steeds are standing,The wild waves sing like a deep bassoon,And the ice-floes clash and the sea-gulls the weird lights flash to his fleet ballDon,As it flits toward the frozen landing. And a mermaid blows him a far-oflf kiss, On a wave-tossed ice-floe rocking;And she sighs to a seal, as she strokes its back, There goes old Kris, with a bulging why should he stop for us, alack! When none of us wears a stocking ? BUKGBS
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . THE JOURNEYS BEGINNING. WHEN the good saint sails from the very northTo the shore where his steeds are standing,The wild waves sing like a deep bassoon,And the ice-floes clash and the sea-gulls the weird lights flash to his fleet ballDon,As it flits toward the frozen landing. And a mermaid blows him a far-oflf kiss, On a wave-tossed ice-floe rocking;And she sighs to a seal, as she strokes its back, There goes old Kris, with a bulging why should he stop for us, alack! When none of us wears a stocking ? BUKGBS JOHNSON. The Surprise By LURANA W. SHELDON THE WEEK before Christmas Hezekiah Applebytook his neighbor, Deacon White, into his con-fidence. Its a leetle lonesome at home, deacon,be began. Now that Maria is married an livin upat Pickleville, an Amos is away tew school, me anHannah aint as chipper as we mout be, an I wuz think-in Id like tew brighten things up a bit fer it a leetle more as it used tew be, he added. The deacon chewed a straw reflecti
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