Deck us all with Boston Charlie

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Deck us all with Boston Charlie,

Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo!

Nora's freezing on the trolley,

Swaller dollar cauliflower, alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,

Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?

Trolley Molly don't love Harold,

Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,

Polly wolly cracker and too-da-loo!

Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,

Willy, folly go through!

Donkey Bonny brays a carol,

Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!

Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,

Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!

hearts in the frozen north, again

We get a fair bit of snow, and we by-gum know what to do with it. The goal, it seems, it keep us cheerful until Town Meeting Day.

Valentine Phantom in Montpelier

This annual tradition of plastering hearts all over the capitol makes me love the city a little more each February 14. Nobody knows who's responsible --it's a secret guerrilla operation and we hope it stays that way.

It's a lovely mystery, on a par with the presents left for Edgar Allen Poe, although we hear he didn't get his roses or his cognac this year. We got our red hearts, though, and the crosswalks of Montpelier are filled with people wearing smiles.