Come, my little one, with me there'Tis a goodly train of cars—

All aboard for Shut-Eye Town!"
Do you know the road of the Shut-
Eye train?

The road is blue like the sky,

and white like the clouds.

It has the night all around it, but it is not dark.

It is not dark, because all the beauti

ful stars bloom over it.

The big Mother Moon lights it. Over this road the Shut-Eye train goes as swiftly as a bird flies. "Ting-a-ling! the bell it goeth, Toot-toot!' the whistle blowethOh, the sights that we shall see! All aboard for Shut-Eye Town!"

THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE

Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'Tis a marvel of great renown!

It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town;

The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet
(As those who have tasted it say)

That good little children have only to eat
Of that fruit to be happy next day.

When you've got to the tree, you would have a hard time

To capture the fruit which I sing;

The tree is so tall that no person could climb To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing! But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat,

And a gingerbread dog prowls below—
And this is the way you contrive to get at
Those sugar-plums tempting you so:

You say but the word to that gingerbread dog
And he barks with such terrible zest
That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,

As her swelling proportions attest.

And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around
From this leafy limb unto that,

And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the

ground

Hurrah for that chocolate cat!

There are marsh-mallows, gumdrops, and peppermint

canes,

With stripings of scarlet or gold,

And you carry away of the treasure that rains
As much as your apron can hold!

So come, little child, cuddle closer to me
In your dainty white nightcap and gown,
And I'll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum Tree
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.

This is a sugar-plum tree.

Have you ever seen a sugar-plum tree? It grows in the garden of Shut-Eye Town. It is the tree on which the candy grows. When good children eat the fruit that grows on the sugar-plum tree, it is said to make them very happy.

This tree is very tall.

The sugar-plums grow at the top.

The tree grows so tall that the children cannot climb to the sugar-plums.

The children of Good-Children street all go

to Shut-Eye Town when night comes.