Kitties’ Treat to Santa Claus.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 14 (Supplement)

Kitties’ Treat to Santa Claus.

BY

LOUIS WAIN.

"Come on, boys, let’s have a meetin’; Don’t you know it’s time for greetin' PSuta Claus, that good old man. Who brings us each year alt be can— Nuts and cakes and toys so rare; Let's treat him now; ’Us only fair I"

This cry went out through Kitten Town, And all the Kitties, up and down, Assembled to discuss the treat With which they Santa Glaus would greet. They brought their pennies, twos and threes, And spread a feast beneath the trees.

Behind the trunks they stood and hid. When Santa Claus camped there amid The hoary frost, and hitched his sack A little higher on his back, They gave a sudden “Whoop hallo! ' Come, rest awhile before you go!"

Of course, he jumped—and wouldn’t you? But soon he felt so happy, too: He liked the Kittens’ kindly thought And all the good things they had bought— Mince pies galore, and lots of tea. Oh, my! They feasted merrily!

The games they played, tl’.e jokes they cracked! The hours just flew,with laughter packed! And when they'd eaten all they could They fetched a Yule log in the wood, And saying, “Sanin, please sit down." Drew him, triumphant, into town.