Says the Old-fashioned Christmas to the New-fangled Christmas,
“What now! You to talk like that! Well, I am blest!
‘Tomfoolery’? Why, what do you call all this here modern fad,—
Sending gimcrack cards by dozens, dauby, glaring, good, and bad,
Nymphs—and what not? Why, between you, you drive friends and Postmen mad.”
Says Young Christmas, “When it’s over, they can rest.”
Bringing in Old Christmas.
From the Illustrated London News.
Says the Old-fashioned Christmas to the New-fangled Christmas,
“Where’s the jollity of twenty years ago?”