A YULETIDE FINALE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 December 1907, Page 3

A YULETIDE FINALE.

+- BY MAZIE VIRGINIA CARUTHERS. A song I sing of a man and a maid, Born bashful he, and sore afraid To plead his cause lest she'd say nay— And so he never found a way To tell the story old and dear, Which she had waited long to hear. Thus time went by till Christmas came tfcen this yoiing-cfame Xs,eiermiped'it was really best' To put her lover to the test. "I know he loves me well," quoth she, " And 'tis but fair to him and me This long drawn silence here should end And Christmas the excuse shall lend!" She set her wits to plan a note, Yfien Uavirig'tlVougMa while, she wrote " Dear Jack: I really can't seem To write the thanks I fully mean For your sweet gift of roses white (I'll wear them at the dance to-night). Indeed you always are so kind It's difficult to find The words I want to say to you ! But I've a present for you, too. A gift I hope you'll not despise, Since it seems fitting, in my eyes. But ere I let you take it home jrtfcant your own opinion. Come, fw view it in our parlor, where I've placed it in the great armchair." He came surveyed the great armchair, -j'ind, 10, his ; lady love sat there ! $ e V -hands were full of mistletoe ! He gasped for joy; she murmuredjow, "Your Christmas gift,sir. Will I dpRight here the chair found room for twp 1