A

VISIT FROM

ST. NICHOLAS,

BY

CLEMENT C. MOORE, LL.D.

With Original Cuts,

DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY BOYD.

New-York:

SPALDING & SHEPARD,

189 Broadway.

1849.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by Wm. H. ONDERDONK, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS.

WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not

even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their

heads;

And Mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's

nap;