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Show Happy Christmas Time WHEN the turkey's on the table and the candlei on the tree I'm Jest about as happy as I ever wanta be I My children gathered 'tound me an' my neighbora settin' by, couldn't be no happier an' I don't wants try. ( like the parson'a sermon an I like the rlngin" chlmeit I like the dressed-up feelin' thflt'i around at Christmas times; But best of all the doin's Is the time. It seems to me. When the turkey's cn the cable an' the candlea on the tree! rhere's a lot o' solid comfort gettln' ready for the day, tV-makin' wreaths of evergreen an' hollyberrv spray; rn' Mother she gets busy a-bakin' things to eat A,n' makin' any kind o' food that's savory an' sweet; Kn' we tie up little presents an' and we make up little jokes You know with verses brlngin in the names of all the folks; But It's all a-workin' upward to that very height ol glee When the turkey's on the table an' the candles oo the tree I You see the Christmas ritual Is "Peace on Earth,' and then It also has another clause about "Good Will to Men;" The latter as 1 take it, bein' doln' all you can To give a bit o' Christmas cheer to any fellow man. So I start In Christmas morn in' with thai raisin' of the sun An' I stick at tt till I get my good-will chores all dont An' then I want my "Peace on Earth." an that ll when I see The turkey on the table an' the candles on the tree) Carolyn Wells, In the Ladles' Home Journal |