Judge — December 23, 1899 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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‘* Now look heah. Ebe; dese pooh little debils am cryin aroun’ heah, a-wor- rin’ de life out ob me foh a Christmas-tree. phin’ foh um.” ON CHRISTMAS EVE. HE used to hang her stockings, Before she went to bed ‘They dangled in the firelight, So long and limp and red. * Awaiting till, mesterious, Across the nursery floor I came, on tip-toe stealing, ‘The saint's ambassador. I came with dolls and candy— What change the winters bring* She sets me now her slipper, ‘A smaller, sightlier thing. Her dainty lady-slipper. ‘The cunning little minx 1 fill it full of gold-dust, ‘That's better far, she thinks. She leaves it by And little the hearth-s jreams that I. sid Perverse and graceless dotard— Regard it with a sigh. I'm longing for the stockin; I'd give—oh, twice the RS. gold, To buy the dolls and candy For Christmas, as of old ' CATHERINE YOUNG GLEN, 1, T reckon yo'll haf ter rig up sum- dat.” COmYmaNT 1899 By JUOGE COMPARY OF NEW ORR. Newiywep—"' I sy Ovetimzn—‘' Well, Eety THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the all-absorbing question with ‘now is what to get the children for Christmas?” ! ‘Abiae you've bad eight. of thee, like me, you'll find the all-absorbing 2. “*Dah, Liz; I raked up yo' old red umbrel. I guess I kin fix um right wid APROPOS. APPROPRIATE to certain people who receive Christ- mas gifts the story is told of a stuttering old gentleman who kept a small store. He went forth one day to collect some bills, and was presented by one of those who owed him with a bill greater in amount than his own. The old gentleman looked at it for a moment, then handed it back, “C-c-can’t fix it,” he said; “I'm d-d-doing a s-strictly c-c-collection b-business t-t-to- day.” HER INTENTION. Gladys Beautigirl— What do you intend to give Mr. Slow- come for Christmas ?” Dolly Swift—"h dint.” ‘Sackett WihelnsLitho & Pg (o.Rew York. ng question is what not to get the children for Christmas.” comicbooks.com