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The Night Before Christmas

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Gosh, what a lot of baubles on the tree. There are one, two, three...

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Hello. I'm Simon. Merry Christmas. Are you having a lovely Christmas?

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I was counting the baubles, making sure that they're all still there,

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after the excitement on Christmas Eve.

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A special visitor arrived, someone with lots of different names,

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Pere Noel, Babbo Natale, Kris Kringle,

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but you probably know him as Father Christmas or Santa Claus.

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Tonight's bedtime story was written a long time ago,

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when Father Christmas was known as St Nicholas.

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Let me tell you Twas The Night Before Christmas

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by Clement C Moore and John Jove.

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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

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Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

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The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

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In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there

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The children were nestled all snug in their beds

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While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads

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And Mamma in her kerchief and I in my cap

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Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap

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When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter

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I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter

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Away to the window I flew like a flash

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Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash

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The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

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Gave the lustre of midday to objects below

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When, what to my wondering eyes should appear

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But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer

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With a little old driver, so lively and quick

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I knew in a moment it must be St Nick

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More rapid than eagles his coursers they came

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And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

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Now Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!

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On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen!

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To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!

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Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away, all!

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As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly

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When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky

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So up to the house top the coursers they flew

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With the sleigh full of toys and St Nicholas too

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And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

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The prancing and pawing of each little hoof

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As I drew in my head and was turning around

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Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound

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He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot

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And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot

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A bundle of toys he had flung on his back

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And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack

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His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!

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His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

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His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

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And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow

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The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth

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And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath

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He had a broad face and a little round belly

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That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

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He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf

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And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!

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A wink of his eye, a twist of his head

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Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread

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He spoke not a word but went straight to his work

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And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk

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And laying his finger aside of his nose

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And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

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He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle

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And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

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But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight

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"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

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That story was called Twas The Night Before Christmas.

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I think Father Christmas knocked some of the baubles off the tree

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when he arrived on Christmas Eve.

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While I put them back, it's time for you to go to bed

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and dream of St Nicholas and his reindeer.

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I'll see you soon for another story. Goodnight.

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Now, where does this one go?

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E-mail [email protected]

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