<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Alden And Percilly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We got up a Christmas-doin's<br>Last Christmas Eve--<br>Kindo' dimonstration<br>'At I railly believe<br>Give more satisfaction--<br>Take it up and down--<br>Than ary intertainment<br>Ever come to town!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Railly was a _theater_--<br>That's what it was,--<br>But, bein' in the church, you know,<br>We had a '_Santy Clause_'--<br>So 's to git the _old folks_<br>To patternize, you see,<br>And _back_ the institootion up<br>Kindo' _morally_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Schoolteacher writ the thing--<br>(Was a friend o' mine),<br>Got it out o' Longfeller's<br>Pome 'Evangeline'--<br>Er some'rs--'bout the _Purituns_--.<br>_Anyway_, the part<br>'_John Alden_' fell to _me_--<br>And learnt it all by heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Claircy was '_Percilly_'--<br>(Schoolteacher 'lowed<br>Me and her could act them two<br>Best of all the crowd)--<br>Then--blame ef he didn't<br>Git her Pap, i jing!--<br>To take the part o' '_Santy Clause_,'<br>To wind up the thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Law! the fun o' practisun!--<br>Was a week er two<br>Me and Claircy didn't have<br>Nothin' else to do!--<br>Kep' us jes a-meetin' round,<br>Kindo' here and there,<br>Ever' night rehearsin'-like,<br>And gaddin' ever'where!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Game was wo'th the candle, though!--<br>Christmas Eve at last<br>Rolled around.--And 'tendance jes<br>Couldn't been surpassed!--<br>Neighbors from the country<br>Come from Clay and Rush--<br>Yes, and 'crost the county-line<br>Clean from Puckerbrush!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meetin'-house jes trimbled<br>As 'Old Santy' went<br>Round amongst the childern,<br>With their pepperment<br>And sassafrac and wintergreen<br>Candy, and 'a ball<br>O' popcorn,' the preacher 'nounced,<br>'Free fer each and all!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Schoolteacher suddently<br>Whispered in my ear,--<br>'Guess I got you:--_Christmas-gift_!--<br>_Christmas is here_!'<br>I give _him_ a gold pen,<br>And case to hold the thing,--<br>And _Claircy_ whispered '_Christmas-gift_!'<br>And I give her a _ring_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And now,' says I, 'jes watch _me_--<br>Christmas-gift,' says I,<br>'_I'm_ a-goin' to git one--<br>'_Santy's_' comin' by!'--<br>Then I rech and grabbed him:<br>And, as you'll infer,<br>'Course I got the old man's,<br>And _he_ gimme _her_!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416664" data-title="John Alden And Percilly de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="We got up a Christmas-doin's Last Christmas Eve-- Kindo' dimonstration 'At I railly believe Give more satisfaction-- Take it up and down-- Than ary intertainment Ever come to town! Railly was a _theater_-- That's what it was,-- But, bein' in the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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