People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — HIS CHRISTMAS WISH. [ARTICLE]

HIS CHRISTMAS WISH.

’Twu7. ’tarrial strange, you’ll all allow. An’ credit me. It wa’n’t no meauness—that I swow—nur jealousy; But every time thet C’rismus come thet odd 2 wuz I wisli’t UP y’uitguns’d think I knew ol’ Sandy Cluz. I alius pot right nervous-like th’ day afore, An’mebbe showed it w’en we gander’d round th’ store A-buyiu’ nuts an’ candy an’ ctset’yruz T’ make th’ y’unguns think still moro o’ Sandy Cluz. An’ w’en we’d stirred th’ y’unguns' stumps upstairs t’ bod An’ crammed their stockln’s full o’ stuff, an’ stood th’ sled Bight in th’ chfinbly corner, I toll you I wuz Je»’ wishiu’ they' suspeu I knew oi' Sandy Cluz. Moa’ y’unguns like their pop and mammy both right well, An’ C’rismus mornin’ how they hug an’ laugh an’ yell An’ kiss you w’ile they make you taste o' things. Bat cluz Them love fer you seem like their love for Sandy Cluz? —J. A. Waldron, In Judge.