The daily gazette., 1880-12-23
In the city-A Christmas Jingle.

"WelI, Master Jack and tiny Bess,
You've come in town today: guess
I'm ready now, each givea hand;
The day is short SO much TO see,
fear we won't get back for tea.
Well walk on Chestnut street awhile
And see the shops and time beguile
Well buy picture book and kite"
''No, auntie. that won't do for me;
PiSssed ssi IN hos my % POCKET siY ali 80 tight.
But won't spend y for kite
want some nicer things than that,
And Bessie wants pussy cat. ID
guess we'll find some shop around
Where plenty pretty things are found"
Il think you've @ not been here Before:
Just open up your peppers wide, wide,
Don't be afraid. we'll push our way
Just Just such crowd % !, comes come ,,y every day"
"somebody's tored my Sunday Jess"
ais this the Sunday dress you wearf
There isn't much of 1t to tear.
All well your striped stockings blue
Are long enough to cover you.
Your grandma says (she's little queer.
She wonders all the children here
Don't have the Group and other woes
They wear such d. eadfuliy short clothes.
She doesn't like at all to see
The stockings way aboye the knee,
Hang Out below like wooden pegs.
But Madam Fashion rules the day,
And she must always have her way;
For worse than any Group or gout
Is Madam Fashion In q pout"
"suppose we 60 below the stairs,
And see what kind Of wares
Tbs veny things hoh FOR wrs snd So
"Oh. auntie, auntie, come right here,
A music box for papa. dear" ~
he h has tx Two yUai music Dsce Soxes @ nov" ''~
"How many pennies does it Cost
To buy knife (for mine 10 losD?
A iumpinQ lack Oh Bessie see
That's Just what mamma says to me.
An omnibus. and horses six:
Hurrah for sleds / see lot.
wish knew just what they q got"
"Weil, as they say, sit down q bit.
! l fear you'll have a nervous fit.
It isn't late, we've plenty ume,.
I aoI win tell you all In rhyme"
And won't wink till You are donc.
Attention, Bessie. still as mice,
We've going to hear 1t awful nise."
rNow to begin Drums, trumpets and balls.
Tea-sets and tables and coaches and dolls,
Neocipedes, elephants. steamboats, and drays
Rattles and marbles and pop-guns and sleighs-
Everything needfnl you'll find in the store;
So out with your purse, I hope full and strong
The clerks are 80 busy they cannot wait long,
PICK out your toys and they'll make up pack
We won't have to carry this bundle about;
They send IL right home before you are out,
We'll have some bread and butter and tea.
Then in the parler I'll tell little Bess.
Some day we shall come for fine wedding
dress,
Fixings and outfit-the French say trousseau.
But English is probably better for you
There Is everything here that lady can pub
Dn the crown of her head or the sole of her foot
Or wrap around her shoulders or fit round he
waist,
Or that can be stitched on or pinned ON O.
laced,
Or tied on with q string or stuck on with a bow
In front or behind, above or below,
But maybe I'm wrong In part of my tale
never saw bangs or frizzes for sale.
Perfumery, powder and soap you will ind,
Brushes and com os very good OF their kind;
Carpets and curtains (you ind them up stairs
Easels and pictures and brackets and books,
Glasses and hat racks to hang up on hooks;
Hardware and tlnware and plenty OF brass
| lCookstoves for oil and heaters for gas;
And down In the centre counter that's round
Behind which ls everything else TO be found,
| And baskets and patterns whatever one needs
| Vases and clocks and ornaments tall,
To put in the parlOr or stand in the haIr.
Festooned upon arches or hung upon stills
Paper and envelopes postal and stamps,
Walters and dishes for cream and for fish
And everything else you can ask for or wish
China and silver and griddles and pots,
And likely as not. some houses and lots u,
"Oh, auntie know that's q whopper Won tell
They couldn't have houses and lots here Z
SELL"
"Well, may be not, come help me look.
I'll buy for you picture book,
And Bessie, darling, don't you fall
And break that beautiful wax dolI.''
"Oh, anntfe, something very queer
| You see that lady over here?
Well when you turn your head about
/ she hid your money up the spout.U
Those tubes are for thai very use.
II How will they get the boxes out P,i
II when you crow big I'll tell you how"