DOLLY, ISN’T CHRISTMAS JOLLY ?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 52, 27 December 1890, Page 19

DOLLY, ISN’T CHRISTMAS JOLLY ?

Dolly, isn’t Christmas jolly t Don’t you wish ’twould stay all year ? Is it always Christmas, Dolly, Where you came from ? Tell me, dear ! Did you live with good Kriss Kringle, In his home so far away ? Aie you glad or sorry, Dolly, That you’re here with me to-day ?

Dolly, isn’t Christmas jolly Oh, if you could only talk— It seems funny that you can’t, W hen you can laugh and cry and walk ! I’ll try awful hard to teach you If you’ll only follow me, I think you could learn a little— Come, now, just say, «, b, c

Dolly, isn’t Christmas jolly ? Oh, if you could only eat! I have lots of nuts and lollies, And plum pudding's awful sweet! I think yon could eat a littledust a little —if you’d tty, Would you like some candy, Dolly, And some fruit cake anil some pie?

1 lolly, isn’t Christmas jolly ? Ain’t you glad that .Santa Claus Put you in my stocking ? lam ! And I think that you are, ’cause You do seem so awful happy—Do you love me, Dolly dear ? • >ll, ain’t Christmas awful jolly? Don’t you wish ’twould stay all year?

Down the Wrong Way.—‘ Dear me !’ said a little girL That piece of turkey haw gone head-first right down my cough-pipe.’