People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — A POINTER FOR SANTA CLAUS. [ARTICLE]

A POINTER FOR SANTA CLAUS.

A little lady, quaint and small—(She’s five years old and growing tall)— About these short December days, When each shop window Is ablaze With gorgeous toys and colored lights, Indulges in strange fancy flights. She said to me the other day: ** When Santa Claus comes out our way How do you think he’ll get his pack Down thro’ our narrow chimney stack? I’ll write to him the day before To come right in at our front door. •• You see, he never could bring down That lovely doll in silken gown We saw at Smith’s —and then her bed And furniture upholstered red, Why—he would have an awful time . Attempting on our roof to climb! “ And, then, just think of all those toys I I A'm sure they'd make an awful noise -As he dropped down, and that would wake Tfs up, while .to his heels he’d take— For, don’t you know he is so shy .He will not come where folks may spy? ■“’I'll just address a letter now To tell him what to bring, and how, .And, then, for fear the post might miss, ■ls you’re down town please tell them this: When Santa gets to our house that .He’ll find the key beneath the mat!”

George E. Bowen,

in Inter Ocean.