Night before christmas moore geb
Twas the night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore Read for LibriVox.org by Brad and Grace Bush of Amazing Kids at amzkids.blogspot.com Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house now the creature was stirring not even a mouse, the stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads,
and Mama Interkerchief, an eye in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap. When out on the lawn there arose such a crater, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the windows I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow gave the luster of midday to objects below, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
With a little driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rabid than eagles, his courses they came, and he whistled and shouted and called it by name. Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen, on Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen, to the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, now dash away, dash away, dash away all. As dry leaves dead before the wild hurricanes fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
so up to the housetop the courses they flew with a sleigh full of toys and St. Nicholas too. And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof the prancing and pawning of each little hoof, as I drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. A bundle of toys he flung on his back and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes how they twinkled, his dimples how merry, his cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry, his droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of his pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke it encircled his head like a leaf. He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, and I laughed when I saw him in spite of
myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk, and laying his finger aside of his nose and giving a nod up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle, but I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight. Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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