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The Christmas Letter

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I'm always glad when Christmas comes, and yet I'd like it better;         If mother wouldn't bother me to write a Christmas letter         To uncle John and Cousin Kate and dear old Grand-aunt Gray,         And all whose presents come to me from places far away.         Of course I love my presents, and if givers should forget her,         No little girl, my mother says, need write a Christmas letter.         For oh! my ink makes awful blots, though I try to do real well,         And when you write them out of school, all words are hard to spell.         I mean to mind my mother, she's so kind I would not fret her,         But when she says, "Stop playing, dear. Come, write this Christmas letter,"         That's just the thing I hate to hear, and if I dared, I wouldn't         Remember how to hold a pen, I'd make believe I couldn't.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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