The Republican journal., 1888-12-20
Last Christmas was q Year Ago."


\ ou hitch up right away: I'll try
To tell the girls es what to do
For dinner. Well he back by two"
! didn't wait to hear what he
Would more N like say back to me,
But banged the stable door and flew
Back to the house, jes plumb chilled through.
Cold Wooh! how cold it was! My oh
Frost flynn, and the air, you know
".Ies sharp enough, heerd David swear,
ITO shave a man and cut his hair"
And blow and blow and snow and snow.
Where it had drifted long the fence
And 'cfost the road-some places, though,
.Jes swep' clean to the gravel, so
The goin' was as bad for sleighs
As twas fer wagons-and both ways,
'TwiXt snowdrifts and the bare ground, I've
Jest wondered we got through alive;
| hain't saw Iothin' fore CT scnce
AT beat it anyW heres know
Last Christmas was year ago.
And David said, rs he set out.
Al Christmas services was bout
As cold and wuthless kind o love
To offer up as he knowed of;
And, AZ fer him, he rally thought
AT the Good Bein' up above
Would think more OF us-;,s He ought
4 -stayiG' home on such day
And ankin' of Him thataMay.
And awed on in an undcrtonc,
Bout leaNin Lide an Jane alone
There on the place. and me rot there
To oversee 'em, and r'pare
The stun' fer the turkey and
The sass and all, you understand.
I've always managed David hy
Jes savin' nothin'. That wa, why
He'd chased Lide's beau away-'causc Lide
She'd allus take up Pcrry's side
When David tackled him, ana 50,
Last Christmas WAS Il year ago
Er ruthcr, bout Il week aforc-
David and Perry quarrc'fd about
Some tom fool rgNmcnt, Vou know,
And Pap told him to 'Jcs git ont
o. there and not to come no more,
Ana when he went. to >het the door.
And as he passed the winder. we
saw Perry, white a white could be.
March past, onhtch his horse. and light
And see gyar and i"pe out of sight,
Then l,le she come to me and c!it'
And said nOthin'-was no need,
And Wit. YOU know, that man io~ got
Right out q there's ef he'd BEN -hot-
P'tendin' he must go and ieeii
The stock cr >omepin. Then tired
To git the pore girl lariitd.
But gittin' back to-vhcre WAS We
Oh. vcs-Where David lcctured me
All way To mcctin, igh and low
Last Christmas was year ago,
For all the awful cold. they WAS
\ fair Attendance, mostly though,
The crowd was round the stoves. You see,
Thawin their heels and scr"ugin' MS.
IF I 'ad MT BEN fer The Old squire
Givin' his seat TO us, a. in
We stomptcd, a-faiTly pcrshin,
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