Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1946 — Page 20

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof Not ¢ creature was stirfing, not even a mouse; The prancing and pawing of each liftle hoof. The stockings were kung by the chimney with care, ~As I drew in my head, and was turning around, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. The children were nestled all snug in their beds; He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads; And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; And Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, «A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, > Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap. And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack. / When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, His eyes how they twinkled! His dimples how merry! E I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. His cheeks were like roses, his‘nose like a cherry! 2 x i a Churche ‘Away to the window I flew like a flash, : His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow :

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Tore open the shuiters and threw up the sash. And the beard on his chin was as white as snow. pe :

The moon, on the breast of the new-fallen snow, The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

Gave a luster of midday to objects below; And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; ; ] ; religious aspect

The echo of m ? : barely died awa But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer. That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. ey : ; Said forth to : Catholicg crow fo the doors las ; : ; midnight Christ I knew in a moment it must be St, Nick. And I laughed whenI saw ‘hin, in spite of myself. “A BY { | this py More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, = : { 2 | Soumtuni ty Doli And he whistled, and shouted and called them by name. Soon gave me to know I had nothing to ‘dread. : : i of 3 puoi 3 He ’ : § adults ‘have lift the monument

\ fhe ; 3 Bl fied "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer! Now, Vixen! He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, Pa . a Biied the Deca

On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! : And filled all the stockings; then tured with a jerk, S$ ; 4 5 i Pag Pa

To the top cf the porch, to the top of the wall! And laying his finger aside of his nose,’ = ; bors, Jie much

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, > He had a broad face and a round little bell oeuy

With a little old driver, so lively and quick, He was chubby and plump—a right jolly oid alf—.

: The work ‘of ¢ Now, dash away, dash away, dash away, all.” And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. % : : ia ens atid Srilis LY Yi g J / y ; J was done as an : devotion. An outstandin was that held Zion Evangelic church. The 1 slearly undersfo

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As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, When they meet \lth an obstacle, mount to the sky; And away they all flew like the down of & thistle;

ap to the housetop the coursers they flew, But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

a sleigh full of toys and St. Nicholas, too!

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