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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2693, 24 December 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHRISTMAS NIGHT. Sometimes I think that Christmas night’s the best. Before the nursery fire, when we’re un- >* ' dressed, ' V And all the toys are put away, except Perhaps my engine and the baby’s bear. Then mother comes away from all the rest Downstairs, to tell our Christmas story there. . She takes the baby in her lap, and.we Sit round her on the, hearth-rug so we see. .. The pictures in the fire, and then she - tells ' About how shepherds watched their flocks by niglit, ' ; And what the angel said, and how the 1 "three'; . .. / Wise Kings came star’s light. riding—and the big And how she tells us liow it showed the - way To just a stable where the oxen stay. And there they found Him in His .mother’s arms, . , A; little Baby Christ-Child—and He smiled!; - i - -, And that (she says) is what made ChriStmas Day For you and me and every little child.' Before the nursery fire, when we’re im- ; dressed, Sometimes I think that Christmas . night’s the best. •