/ ~ Peete - ams The Daily British Whig | ress | S---- m= KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATUR DAY. DECEMBER 23, 1916 : THIRD SECTION YEAR 83, NO. 299 mmm AA bb BB \ he BEI \N AE 3) R 3. A oi Fae ¥ A. 4 WX NAN \ > ish x ARRAN $i S WA . \ \ \ \ A \ WN . \ \ <A \ \ > \ \ \ ' \ N x a \ b \ \ / AE \ WY Ny \ K 2 ] AX N. analy. 3 \ 3 \ \ XE \ x & re AR ANN ANN NRA Rah S DY \ \ NN N R of A - $00 ¢ %e comes in the night! We comes in the night? 8 eee Fe sotely, silently comes. 8. While the little brown heads on the pillows so white A << Are dreaming of bugles and drums. 2 2.7 Be cuts through the snow like a ship through the foam. I While the white Aakes around Him whirl. a Who tells him J know not, but he findeth the home =f Of each good little bop and gitl. Bis sleigh it is long, and deep, and Wide: Jt will carrp a host of things, While dozens of drums bang over the sine, With the sticks sticking under the strings And pet not the souud of a drum is hear. fot a bugle blast is blown, A¢ be mounts to the chimnep-top like a biry, And drops to the Hearth like a storie. x The lictle ved stockings be silently fills, Till the stockings will Hold no more; The bright little slede for the great snow kills . Ave quickly set Down on the floor. - Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof like a bird And glives to bis seat m the sleigh; Hot the gound of a bugle ot drum ig heard As, be noiselessly gallops away. Pc rides to the east, and he rives to the west RR | "ee ."; ®f bis goodies be touches not one; 7 er Am oe cateth the crumbe of the Christmas feast oy m I's When the vear little folks are done. Ov Panta Claug voeth all that be can: ; Chis beautiful mission is bis; Then, children, be good to the little oly man . When pou find who the little man (s 3 * (anonpmous,) L => 7 (imi HIE Ji > Lx. From * TNE CHRYSTMAS TREASURY * © by Doubleda