A TREASURY OF STORIES, JINGLES AND RHVMES.
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THE MISTLETOE:

LY elf, with rosy finger tips
Pressed tightly on your rosy lips,
I pray you, tell us what you know

About this branch of mistletoe.

DECEMBER SPEAKS.

The Mistletoe is old and wise,

And always watched by cunning spies ;

I do not dare to tell you how

And where I found this curious bough,
Oh, if I should forget, and speak,

They ’d pull my ear, and pinch my cheek!
And this is why my finger tips

I press so tightly on my lips.

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