IN RHYME.
Perhaps you would like to try your hand at answering the following puzzling questions :
Do "plants" for making pretty gifts grow up to Christmas trees? x And are " the sea-son's greetings" sent by salt sons of the seas? Are Yule-logs cut from snowdriftwood by Yuletide washed ashore? And could you stub a mistletoe against a parlour door? If Eve had tried from holly-twigs a partygown to' weave, Do you suppose, that Adam would have called her "Christmas Eve?" Saint Nicholas in autos'eigh defies police and laws: Do regulations as to speed contain a Santa clause?
A CHRISTMAS CATCH. < o Polly's pert, and Polly's pretty, Polly's all that I desire, Being winning, wise, and witty, With her cheeks like autumn briar, Or the kindled holly-berry that the frost has touched with fire. Ne'er a cloud of melancholy Drifts across her brow of snow; Ever sunny, ever jolly, That's the Polly that • I know, And I would that I might lure her underneath the mistletoe! It was sorely worth while trying, Even if the mark I missed; I should hate to see her crying If I happened to insist, Yet I somehow think that Polly wouldn't baulk at being kissed! i Clinton Scollard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17348, 20 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)
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