FATHER CHRISTMAS AND THE KITTENS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 3 (Supplement)

FATHER CHRISTMAS AND THE KITTENS

Oh! dear* me, ’tis fun to see The kits on Christmas morning. They scamper down, without a frown. They haven’t time for yawning, And fall upon the stockings where They hang around the fire. Each one is full to bursting; there Is all that they c’rsire.

Young Tibby Spawl, she has a shawl— While Dick the Tabby has a ball, She’s merry as a cricket, And Sporting Tom a wicket, And walking-sticks, a box of bricks, And tins and tins of toffee. They turn them out. like juggler’s tricka Before they drink their coffee.

Old Santa Claus, he smiles because He likes to see them happy, He creeps in through the open doors— He is a jolly chappie! And then he just begins to joke, And tell them funny stories; They chuckle till they nearly choke Amid the festive gloriesl

“And now' advance! Let’s have a dance!” He taps the music stand. The kittens clasn and whirl and prance, While he directs the band. The ragtime rollicking refrain They all take up: ’tis splendid! And everyone cries out, “Again!” When every danc e is ended.

But oh, how nice, upon the iee The silver moon is gleaming! The kittens soon it must entice

To start toboggan-teaming. They takes their skates and caps an| gloves And all their smartest sledges. They skim along, the little love% Down hills and over ledges.