The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-31
RIGHT HERE
u Just Where You'll Find I, All.
"Where the Hen Scratches There
Am the Bug"

"Where the Hen Scratches There
Am the Bug"
Chrislmas has come and gone.
The sbuve - purely original. having
never bren used before OF elmer, sad 80
suegrss~d BY the coincidenc. that wednrs-
day va Christmas and Ia day amt.
We h"Pe our rr.des have enj ,y-d them
selsss. AID ,hss they have enough to last
them until next Wednesday. after which
they vili take up their troubles and re-
sume the real business Of life.
This vili be found To consist of getting
into debt and out Of il. The out will cum
me"ce early in the morning On The ~ u
January.
Reader. II Ne had our Gay. Christians
should last the whole year round. This
world should be one vast basin Of egg nog.
with large continen;s Of mince pics, and
islsnds u cake and mountains Of candy.
Santa Cl.u. should be Prr.i.ien, aud his
term last forever. ltsLou!d rain Chri.,m,.
gifis. hail losensers. snow ice cream. The
STARE should be gum drop.. the moon should
be blanc mango. sGd the sun one big hsosd
bias. of iliimitsble pound cake.
hut Ne ain't got our way.
| Which accounts for the scarcity Of ihs
shove blessings.
| Yea. Chrisimas has come and gone
Around il cling memories Of joyous child
hood; and gloomy cares and .orrovs, too
may mar i,s brightness in m~,ursr years
Where are the friends ii the Chrisima.e.
of the long agof Where are tine l.vins
hands which mInislered to oar youthful
festivities and made real that delu.iou a
Ssnia Claus!
| Some are gone. long sincr, tn III,
bo~"m Of Him shuae nativity founded tn,
day. l;one down into the misty glo.m,n,
u the departed. from whence recollection
AZ times summcns their .hsdovy shapes f.
few brief momeni.; when the heart
warmed and the eye dimn,ed by the memo
rice Of our earlier, our happier and on
better years.
Il "Icanno, keep tie Christina. n.s.
Tie chimes are ruIg IN vain.
| Nv heart - buried win the dead
On y"n.ier hattie PIain,
|. AMI years an wears c',,ii- floating ny
And ns-n'ory's misty breath.
With iii.iik- hrIshtnsss at tie Past
| To mock the present Deati'
Y~s m-rriiy the joy -teii. ring.
III Aud notes the h.iy h"I.- they fling
| Isns On the nigh. sni tiings bring
proni-- from the Heaven born King.
! ..Ic,nnof keep the Christmas now
Take feast snd ninth away:
In lonely chauf-r sifii NV prayers,
] siiI sb'de the day.
And. to my iaucy. frI-nd- nos lost
| Viii come Ia share my woe.
And through NV t-ar-, will look At me
ii With the love oilvns ago..
al Bur .tiIi the merry JOY -b.iIs ring.
And nil tho AR viii, welcoming.
While n~s-age- OF Isa-e they bnng.
The language OF the liesven-born king!'
Heish no! il is no use 10 cry over spill
I'd milk. Well ell have our turn. r~sds
80 let ~ Erasp the hand 81 the living
chrri-h vh.i % left. be true to the frirns
re have, and make the most III the prr.eu
: Oar word for il, we will Ill be better ~
? happier.
D Tbs, prophec, Of ours make. us think 4,
/ Old Mother Shirt"n's.
: Did you ever know Of old Mother ShiI
ton. sesder?
Nov, il you say zee. we've got you in
lie. sure, bee u-e she dird IN 1855 Gsor,
Wsshington's nurs~s lived longer than 40,
body hut M.ihus.i.h. aud one Of them io
10 The other day that she n.ves heard
Mother Shipton. Mother Ship,on's Prop
ecy, vas first published in 1855. and rrPu
iisheA in l64l. II will be noticed that .
of the events predicted in il, except Il
TOO last lines-which 10 still in he fuiu
q have already come To pass.