A CHRISTMAS PROBLEM. Why does he take the skates andsleds,The bats and balls, and arrowsand bows,And trumpets, and drums, and guns— hurrah!To all the boys, — does grand-mother know? But there is a thing that puzzlesme,—When Santa Claus was a boy atPlay,And hung a stocking on Christmaseve,Who could… … SYDNEY DAYKE.
Children's poetry · Picture books for children
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
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