{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_64100/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_64100","id":"gutenberg_64100","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64100","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Poetry","Children's poetry","Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry"],"text":"Santa Claus,\n                             Kriss Kringle\n                           or St. Nicholas.\n\n                          Fully Illustrated.\n\n                             Published by\n                          E. J. WHITE & CO.,\n           54 North Main Street, Room 16, Providence, R. I.\n\n                Copyrighted, 1897, by E. J. White & Co.\n\n\n\n\n    \u201cNow, I have caught you Santa Claus,\n     Kriss Kringle or St. Nicholas,\n     And you must tell me, tell me true,\n     Which of these names best pleases you?\u201d\n\n    \u201cO-ho! my pretty little maid,\n     I\u2019ll answer true, O-ho!\u201d he said.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cMy wife, she often calls me hub,\n     And, strange to you, sometimes just bub,\n     No doubt you think me six feet, four,\n     And that I weigh a ton or more,\n     But when at home I\u2019m rather small,\n     Not near so large nor half so tall\n     As when I visit girls and boys\n     And load them down with pretty toys.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cSometimes she calls me darling, dear,\n     \u2019Tis then I\u2019ve nothing harsh to fear.\n     Again her words come thicker, faster,\n     They burn me like a mustard plaster.\n     But I will not repeat the titles\n     That rasp my ears and chill my vitals.\n     Enough, I know she\u2019s not to blame,\n     And that she loves me just the same.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897\n]\n\n    \u201cThe names which you have mentioned, three,\n     Are what most people give to me.\u201d\n     He then looked serious and said:--\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cSometimes it enters my wife\u2019s head,\n     When we have just a bit of leisure,\n     To take a little ride for pleasure.\n     \u2019Tis then when sounds the sleigh bell\u2019s jingle,\n     And the frost makes ears and noses tingle,\n     She coolly calls me \u2018Sir Kriss Kringle.\u2019\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cWhen Sunday comes, with pious thought\n     We go to church, there to be taught\n     The way to live, our duties plain.\n     \u2019Tis then with sober look, and mein,\n     As down the aisle we, solemn, pass,\n     She whispers low, \u2018St. Nicholas.\u2019\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cBut when the holidays draw near\n     And we are busy with good cheer,\n     And I am loading up my sleigh\n     With presents for your Christmas Day,\n     My wife with nimble fingers aiding,\n     And gentleness her acts pervading,\n     I\u2019m jolly then, and just because\n     She calls me \u2018dear old Santa Claus.\u2019\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n[Illustration:\n\n     Copyrighted, 1897.\n]\n\n    \u201cMy story\u2019s told, and you have guessed\n     Which name it is I like the best.\u201d","title":"Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle, or St. Nicholas: Fully Illustrated.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":387}