MUSIC—Cornet Solo, or Choir.
READING—Santa Claus on the Train.

On a Christmas eve an emigrant train

Sped on through the blackness of night,

And cleft the pitchy dark in twain

With the gleam of its fierce headlight.

In a crowded car, a noisome place,

Sat a mother and her child;

The woman’s face bore want’s wan trace,