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'TIS THE WIND

Weather-cock, what makes you go Round and round the whole day so? 'Tis the wind whirls me!

'Tis the wind twirls me!
So to all the world I show
How the merry wind doth go.

Pretty kite what makes you fly
Up above the tree-tops high?

'Tis the wind lifts me!

'Tis the wind drifts me! Tosses me in merry play, Here and there in every way.

Windmill, high on yonder hill,

What makes your sails go turning still? 'Tis the wind loves them!

"Tis the wind moves them!

Helps them turn the mill-stones round, So your meal to flour's ground.

-From the German

THREE SHIPS

I saw three ships go sailing by

On Christmas day, on Christmas day; I saw three ships go sailing by

On Christmas day in the morning. Pray whither sailed those ships all three On Christmas day, on Christmas day; Pray whither sailed those ships all three On Christmas day in the morning? Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem

On Christmas day, on Christmas day; Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem

On Christmas day in the morning. And all the bells on earth shall ring On Christmas day, on Christmas day; And all the bells on earth shall ring

On Christmas day in the morning.

And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;

And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas day in the morning.

And all the souls on earth shall sing
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
And all the souls on earth shall sing
On Christmas day in the morning.

-West of England Carol

AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL

God bless the master of this house,
The mistress also,

And all the little children

That round the table go,
And all your kin and kinsmen
That dwell both far and near;
I wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Politeness is to do and say

The kindest thing in the kindest way.

NO VINU

THE OLD DOG

There was once a man who had a very old dog. When the dog was young his master was kind to him, but when he grew old he drove him into the street and gave him nothing to eat.

The poor dog was lying outside the fence one day when a wolf went by. "Doggy," said the wolf, "why are you so sad?”

"While I was young," said the dog, “my master was kind to me, but now I am old he beats me and gives me nothing to eat."

"I am sorry for you," said the wolf. "Perhaps I can make things better. See, your master and mistress are out there in the field. Your mistress has put her little child down by the wagon. Now, I shall go and run away with the child. You must run after me and bark and growl. Even though

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you have no teeth you must bite at me, so your mistress can see what a good dog you are to help save her child.”

Then the wolf took the child in his mouth and ran away with it. The dog ran after the wolf as fast as he could run and began to bark and to bite at him.

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