Christmas Time

Christmas time for boys and girls
Is a happy day,
For we go to grandmamma’s
And eat and sing and play.

Grandma does not say to us—
“Stop that horrid noise,”
‘Cause she understands we can’t,
When we’re “only boys.”

And she lets the girls play house,
In the garret old,
And when they strew things around,
Grandma doesn’t scold.

But we ought to pick them up,
Even on Christmas day,
For we shouldn’t make kind friends
Trouble with our play.

Yes, we love the Christmas time
Best of all the year,
We have waited for it long,
Now, at last, it’s here.

by M.N.B.