BUSHYBEARD'S XMAS PUDDING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 720, 21 December 1933, Page 7

BUSHYBEARD'S XMAS PUDDING

Once W(inkie Wix and Broiwnie White called on our Bushybeard, They all had tea and, later, when the table he had cleared, i Our old fricnd fetched ' a great big 'Chrismas pudding he had made. "I'm sure," said he, "that puts all Other puddings in the shade. Said Winkie Wix, "I could not make a pudding if I tried." And Brownie White said, "Did you put some sixpences inside?" "I did not," said our bushybeard, "but I did better far; I put a box of matches in, also a big , cigar!" "And then I put some pen-nibs in, ! also a pot of ink — They're useful when you wiant to : write a note, I always think. I put some blacking in as well — |t's Very useful stuff, And some tobaceo, too, and then — oh, yes, a tin of snuff." j 'So everyone -will have a gift — at least, that's what I hope. Oh, I forgot! I put in, too, a nice large lump of soap!" His friends looked_ at each other. Winkie Wix exclaimed: "Oh dear! , That pudding, Bushybeard, will taste | extremely strange, I fear. "I'm sorry, but I do not think your pudding I will try, W|hat do you say, friend Brownie White?" and Brownie cried, "Not I! With all those different things in it, however will it taste? • I'm sorry, hut I am afraid your pud- : ding you will waste." — Sent in by Peach Blossom. ; AS A LITTLE CHILD. Christmas is a child's day, j Oh, my heart keep young! : Christmas is the loveliest | 'Song^ a child has sung. ! Christmas is the starriest ( Night of joy and mirth; Every little child is glad That Jesus came to earth. Christmas is a child's day, IWlatch a child's eyes shine! Heavenly Father, let me keep The Christmas light in mine. Christmas is so holy, Pure and clean and white — Heavenly Father-, let me be A little child to-night. — iSent in by Red Rose. A CHRISTMAS VERSE. A robin sat upon a tree And sang his winter song, An>d then he cried delightedly, I hear a dinner gongd A taste of Christmas pudding noiw, And a peck at some minee-pie Wfould please me very much — but how To get at it? — oh, my! j Just then he heard a friendly call, ! From undernea.th the tree. | Gome rohin to our dining-hall, J And eat minee-pie with me. — $ent in by Busy Bee.