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A CHRISTMAS CROAK.
Bind up, bind up your walking shoes
With list, or woollen rags ;

In case of slides, by playful boys,
Prepared upon the flags.

 

And mind, a Respirator buy ;
A good thick shawl also ;
For, in the jolly Christmas time,
The Asthma’s all the go.
And ’tis tidings of comfort and joy.

Pile up, pile up the Christmas log,
Or scuttle full of coals ;

To melt the stuff for sticking on
Your Gutta Percha soles.