Christmas Stories: "Jest 'Fore Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"

Christmas Stories: "Jest 'Fore Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas" is a collection of two short stories by Clement C. Moore. Moore was an American author, scholar and real estate contractor. Excerpt:
"Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!
Mighty glad I ain't a girl—ruther be a boy,
Without them sashes, curls, an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy!
Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake—
Hate to take the castor-ile they give for belly-ache!
'Most all the time the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,
But jest 'fore Christmas, I'm as good as I kin be!"