The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-01
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THE MIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS.

THE MIGHT AFTER CdRIsTMAS.
Companion Poem to the "lNight Before Christ
mas"
As the well-known Poem, 'The Night Befor
Christmas" has had run in the papers at this sea
of the year, it may be well enough to vary il b.
a companion poem, "The Night AJter Christmas,
which we find in stray almanac. There is a dea
of truth mingled with the humor of the description
of the household scenes which frequently occur a
the time mentioned. Read it to the little ones IS
reminder:
THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS.
Twas the night after Christmas, when all through
the house
Every soul was a-bed and as still as a mouse;
The stockings $50 lately ST. Nicholas carey
Were empded OF an that was estable there.
Tile dariings had duly been tucked in their beds,
With very fullstomachs and pains in their heads.
was doing away in my new cotton cap,
And Nancy was rather far gone in nap,
When out in the Nursery there rose such clatter,
sprang from my sleep, crying "What is the mat
terp
few to each bedside, still half in doze,
Tore open the curtains and threw off the clothes,
While the light of candle served clearly to show
The piteous plight of the objects below.
For what to the fathers fond eye should appear,
But the little pale face of each sick little dear
For each pet that had crsmmed itself full as atck,
knew in a moment now felt like Old Nick
Their pulses were rapid, their breathings the sane
What their stomachs rejected III mention by name;
Now TURKEYS, now Stufing, Plumb Pudding Of
course,
And Custards and Crullers, and Cranberry Sauce.
Before outraged Nature all went to the wall
Yes, Lollypops, Flapdoodle, dinner and all.
Like pellets which urehins from pop-guns let fly,
Went figs, nuts and raisins, jams, jelly and pie:
TIL each error of diet was brought to my view,
To the shame of Mamma and of Santa Claus, too.
turned from the sight, to my bedroom stepped
back
Aud brought out a vial marked "Pure Ipecac;"
When my Nancy exclaimed, for their suferinss
shocked her,
'Don't you think you had better, love- run for the
doctor?"
ran and was scarcely back under my roof,
When heard the sharp catter of old "JaIaps" hoof
might say that hardly had turned myself round,
When the doctor came into the room with a bound.
ne was coNereu Win mu0 from MS heaQ 70 ais FOOT
And the clothes he had on were his very best suit
He hardly had time to put that Oh his back,
And he looked like Falstaff half fudded with sack
His eyes, how they twinkled Had the doctor got
merTy7
His cheeks looked like Port and his breath smelt
like Sherry.
But inspecting their tongues in spite of their teeth
And drawing his watch from his waistcoat beneath,
He felt each little pulse, saying, Each little belly
Must get rid" here he laughed of the rest of that
Jelly"
gazed on each chubby, plump, sick little elf,
And g-oaned, when he said so, in spite of myself
But wink of his eye, when he physicked our Fred,
Soon gave me to- know had nothing to dread.
He didn't prescribe, but went straight to his work,
And dosed all the rest, gave his trousers jerk,
And adding directions while blowing his uose,
He buttoned his coat and from his chair rose,
Then jumped in his gig, gave old "Jalap" whistle,
And ''Jalap" dashed of as though pricked by a
thistle;
But the doctor exclaimed he drove out of sight,
They'll be well by to-morrow-Gl cd night, Jones !
Good Aight!"