When the children have been good, <br />That is, be it understood, <br />Good at meal-times, good at play, <br />Good all night and good all day— <br />They shall have the pretty things <br />Merry Christmas always brings. <br /> <br />Naughty, romping girls and boys <br />Tear their clothes and make a noise, <br />Spoil their pinafores and frocks, <br />And deserve no Christmas-box. <br />Such as these shall never look <br />At this pretty Picture-book.<br /><br />Heinrich Hoffmann<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/merry-stories-and-funny-pictures/
