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-A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

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-BASED ON THE BOOK BY DYLAN THOMAS

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-VOICED BY

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-There's nothing like a walk

-on the beach on a Christmas morning.

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-I've come nearly every year

-since I was your age.

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-Get them, Sammy! Look at him,

-he's enjoying himself!

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-All those years ago?

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-All those years ago?

-

-Yes.

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-Yes.

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-When you were a boy,

-what was Christmas like?

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-It snowed.

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-One Christmas

-was so much like another...

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-..that I can never remember...

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-..whether it snowed for six days

-and six nights when I was 12...

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-..or whether it snowed for twelve

-days and twelve nights when I was 6.

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-What do you remember?

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-I remember

-Mrs Prothero and the firemen.

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-It snowed last year, too.

-I made a snowman.

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-When my brother knocked it down,

-I knocked him down, too.

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-But it wasn't the same snow.

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-Not the same snow? Tell me about

-Mrs Prothero and the firemen, then.

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-It was on the afternoon

-of Christmas Eve.

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-I was in Mrs Prothero's garden

-waiting for cats with her son Jim.

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-It was snowing.

-It was always snowing at Christmas.

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-December, in my memory,

-is white as Lapland...

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-..though there were no reindeers.

-But there were cats.

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-Our hands wrapped in socks...

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-..we waited to snowball the cats.

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-Sleek and long as jaguars

-and horrible-whiskered...

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-..spitting and snarling...

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-..they would slink and sidle

-over the white back-garden walls.

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-Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined

-trappers from Hudson Bay...

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-..off Mumbles Road...

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-..would hurl our deadly snowballs

-at the green of our eyes.

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-The wise cats never appeared.

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-We were so still,

-Eskimo-footed arctic marksmen...

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-..in the muffling silence

-of the eternal snow.

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-Eternal snow?

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-Eternal snow?

-

-Eternal, ever since Wednesday...

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-..that we never heard

-Mrs Prothero's first cry...

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-..from her igloo

-at the bottom of the garden.

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-Fire! Fire! Fire!

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-But soon the voice grew louder.

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-But soon the voice grew louder.

-

-Fire! Fire!

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-This was better than all the cats in

-Wales standing on the wall in a row.

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-COUGHING

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-Do something!

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-Call the fire brigade!

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-We threw our snowballs

-into the smoke.

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-We missed Mr Prothero, and ran out

-of the house to the telephone box.

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-Let's call the police as well!

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-Let's call the police as well!

-

-And the Ambulance.

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-And the Ambulance.

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-And Ernie Jenkins, he likes fires.

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-You didn't call Ernie Jenkins,

-did you?

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-We only called the fire brigade.

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-And soon the fire engine came,

-and three tall men in helmets...

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-..brought a hose into the house...

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-..and Mr Prothero got out just

-in time before they turned it on.

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-And when the firemen

-turned off the hose...

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-..and were standing in

-the wet, smoky room...

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-..Jim's Aunt came downstairs

-and peered in at them.

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-Jim and I waited, very quietly,

-to hear what she would say to them.

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-She said the right thing, always.

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-Would you like anything to read?

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-Mr Prothero only wanted

-to read his paper in peace.

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-Nobody could have had

-a noisier Christmas Eve!

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-You said the snow was different

-but it isn't, is it?

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-The snow is just the same.

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-The snow is just the same.

-

-It seems different to me.

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-I don't think so.

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-Were there postmen then, too?

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-With sprinkling eyes

-and wind-cherried noses!

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-We lock Sammy in

-when the postman comes!

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-Father Christmas brings me my

-presents. At least I think he does.

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-I've never seen him doing it.

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-Was there a Father Christmas

-when you were a boy?

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-On Christmas Eve I hung,

-at the foot of my bed...

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-..Bessie Bunter's black stocking.

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-I always said I would stay awake

-all the moonlit, snowlit night...

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-..to hear

-the roof-alighting reindeer...

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-..and see the hollied boot

-descend through soot.

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-But soon the sand of the snow

-drifted into my eyes.

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-And though I stared towards the fire

-and around the flickering room...

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-..where the black

-sack-like stocking hung...

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-..I was asleep before

-the chimney trembled...

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-..and the room

-was red and white with Christmas.

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-But in the morning, though no

-snow melted on the bedroom floor...

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-..the stocking bulged and brimmed.

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-Hmm, so you never saw him either.

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-Were there sweets,

-like in my stocking?

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-Of course there were sweets.

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-Hardboileds, toffee,

-fudge and allsorts...

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-..crunches, cracknels, humbugs,

-marzipan, sugar cigarettes...

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-..and butterwelsh for the Welsh.

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-And troops of bright tin soldiers!

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-If they could not fight,

-they could always run.

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-And Snakes-and-Families

-and Happy Ladders.

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-And a whistle to make the dogs bark

-to wake up the old man next door...

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-..and make him beat on the wall

-to shake our picture off the wall!

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-Quiet, Sammy!

-It's not you they were whistling at!

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-Get back to the presents.

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-Get back to the presents.

-

-There were the useful presents.

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-There were the useful presents.

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-Like mobile phones?

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-Engulfing mufflers

-of old coaching days...

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-..and mittens made

-for giant sloths, zebra scarves...

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-..blinding tam-o'-shanters

-like patchwork tea cosies...

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-..and bunny-suited busbies...

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-..and balaclavas for victims

-of head-shrinking tribes.

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-And books that told me everything

-about the wasp, except why.

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-Go on to the useless presents.

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-Bags of moist

-and many-coloured jelly babies...

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-..and a folded flag and a false nose

-and a tram-conductor's cap...

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-..and a machine that punched

-tickets, but never a catapult.

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-Once by mistake, a little hatchet...

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-..and a celluloid duck

-that made a most unducklike sound.

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-And a painting book.

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-I could make the grass, the trees,

-the sea, any colour I pleased.

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-Still the dazzling sky-blue sheep

-are grazing in the red field...

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-..under the rainbow-billed

-and pea-green birds.

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-Toys, clothes, books.

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-I get presents like those.

-What then?

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-Then I would scour the town

-for news of the little world.

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-Not many in those mornings

-trod the piling streets.

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-Men and women

-scooping back from chapel...

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-..with red noses and wind-bussed

-cheeks, huddling against the snow.

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-An old man always, fawn-bowlered,

-with spats of snow...

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-..would take his constitutional to

-the white bowling green and back...

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-..as he would take it wet or fire

-on Christmas Day or Doomsday.

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-THUNDER

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-Sometimes two hale young men,

-with big pipes blazing...

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-..no overcoats

-and wind-blown scarves...

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-..would trudge, unspeaking,

-down to the forlorn sea...

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-..to work up an appetite,

-to blow away the fumes, who knows...

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-..to walk into the waves

-until nothing of them was left...

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-..but the two curling smoke clouds

-of their inextinguishable briars.

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-Mmm! Lovely!

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-Or you took out a sugar cigarette

-and put it in your mouth...

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-..and waited hours for an old lady

-to scold you for smoking...

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-..and then,

-with a smirk, you ate it.

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-Why didn't you go home

-for Christmas dinner?

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-Oh, but I did, I always did.

-I would be slap-dashing home...

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-..the gravy smell

-of the dinner of others...

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-..the bird smell, the brandy,

-the pudding and mince...

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-..weaving up my nostrils, when

-out came a boy the spit of myself...

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-..with a pink-tipped cigarette...

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-..and the violet past of a

-black eye, leering all to himself.

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-I hated him on sight, and was about

-to put the dog-whistle to my lips...

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-..and blow him off the face

-of Christmas when suddenly he...

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-WHISTLE

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-SHOUTS

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-There's a boy like that

-in my school.

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-There's no doing anything with them.

-What did you have for dinner?

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-Turkey, and blazing pudding.

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-Was it nice?

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-Was it nice?

-

-It was not made on earth.

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-It was not made on earth.

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-Mmm!

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-Look at me, Sammy!

-I'm a bird, I'm flying!

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-SAMMY HOWLS

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-What is it, Sammy?

-What've you found?

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-All but one of his fires out.

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-Come on Sammy.

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-Whey-hey!

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-And it's Number 8! Number 8

-has the ball and he's free!

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-I want it back! It's my ball!

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-A useless pair of big boyos,

-that's all you are!

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-Get the chairs down

-from the box room now!

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-There were uncles too, then,

-just like in our house.

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-There are always uncles

-at Christmas. The same uncles.

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-Not you! You can stay here!

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-You don't want to eat those, Sammy!

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-He'll be in trouble

-when they come back!

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-Here's a Christmas toffee for you.

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-It's got fluff stuck

-all over it, mind.

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-I think I've got

-another one somewhere. What's this?

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-Look, Sammy!

-It warmed up again in my pocket!

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-It's a miracle, a Christmas miracle!

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-What did you do after dinner?

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-I would go out into the white world,

-to call on Jim and Dan and Jack...

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-..and to pad

-through the still streets...

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-..leaving huge deep footprints

-on the hidden pavements.

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-I bet people will think

-there's been hippos here!

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-What would you do if you

-saw a hippo coming down our street?

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-I'd throw him over the fence

-and roll him down the hill!

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-Then I'd tickle him under the ear.

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-What if there were two hippos?

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-No, no, no!

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-BOYS LAUGH

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-Let's post Mr Daniel a snowball.

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-Let's write things in the snow.

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-Let's write, "Mr Daniel looks

-like a spaniel all over his lawn!"

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-HE BARKS

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-BOYS LAUGH

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-Now we were snow-blind travellers

-lost on the north hills.

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-Dogs with flasks round their necks

-ambled and shambled up, baying.

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-We returned home

-through the poor streets...

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-..where only a few children fumbled

-with bare red fingers in the snow...

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-..and cat-called after us,

-their voices fading away...

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-..as we trudged uphill,

-into the cries of the dock birds...

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-..and the hooting of ships

-out in the whirling bay.

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-DOG BARKS

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-Can the fishes see it's snowing?

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-Eh?

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-BOYS SCREAM

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-# You may marvel at our size

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-# Great big bottoms, enormous thighs

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-# On the land we're quite unsteady

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-# Underwater,

-we are ready to win the hippo race!

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-# We are hunky, we are strong

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-# A swimming hippo can't go wrong

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-# Bang goes the pufferfish,

-and we're off with just one wish

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-# To win the hippo race!

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-# Listen how the fans

-are cheering all along the way

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-# Screaming, shouting

-flouting, pouting

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-# The crowd leaps up and cheers

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-# As the hippo race appears

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-# Crack that whip

-we'll run with all our might

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-# We'll let rip

-and soon be out of sight

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-# Salty pirates like to think

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-# Bad behaviour will make us sink

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-# Look around and you might find

-the Pirate King is right behind

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-# To win the hippo race! #

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-BELL TOLLS

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-# Though they put up quite a fight

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-# They haven't got the dynamite

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-# You may marvel at our size

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-# Great big bottoms, enormous thighs

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-# Don't give up, almost there

-Hold on tight, say a prayer

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-# We'll win the hippo race!

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-# The great big hippo race! #

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-Go on then, what happened next?

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-I can't remember.

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-You must be able

-to remember something like that!

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-Well, I can't at the moment.

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-Well, it was only a story after all.

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-Hippos don't live in Wales,

-except in a zoo. And then tea next?

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-And then, at tea, the recovered

-uncles would be jolly...

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-..and the iced cake loomed

-on the table like a marble grave.

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-Mistletoe hung

-from the gas brackets.

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-There was sherry

-and walnuts and bottled beer...

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-..and crackers by the dessertspoons.

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-Cats in their fur-abouts

-watched the fires.

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-The high-heaped fire spat, ready for

-the chestnuts and mulling pokers.

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-I remember tall tales by the fire...

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-..as the gaslight

-bubbled like a diver.

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-Ghosts whooed like owls

-in the long nights...

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-..when I dared not

-look over my shoulder.

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-Animals lurked in the cubby-hole

-under the stairs...

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-..and the gas meter ticked.

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-And I remember

-that we went singing carols once...

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-Let's go to the big house?

-We'll get plenty of money there!

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-OWL HOOTS

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-GASPS

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-SHOUTS

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-Come on, then.

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-GIGGLES

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-SHOUTS

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-SHOUTS

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-Shall we sing Away In A Manger?

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-No, O Come, All Ye Faithful.

-After three.

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-One, two, three.

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-# O come, all ye faithful

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-# Joyful and triumphant

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-# O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem

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-# Come and behold him

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-# Born the King of angels

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-# O come let us adore him #

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-# O come let us adore him #

-

-SCREAMS

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-SCREAMS

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-That's odd!

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-Perhaps it was a ghost, mmm?

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-Perhaps it was a ghost.

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-Perhaps it was trolls.

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-Let's go in and see

-if there's any jelly left.

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-CAT MEOWS

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-CAT MEOWS

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-There was a house like that

-near us once.

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-Sometimes you could hear music

-coming out of it.

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-It was ghosts playing

-Ryan James said...

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-..and he knows because

-his Dad works for the council.

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-They knocked it down

-and built houses there.

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-So the ghosts all had to move,

-and the music ended.

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-We always had music

-on Christmas night.

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-An uncle played the fiddle,

-a cousin sang Calon Lan...

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-..and another uncle

-sang Bugail Aberdyfi.

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-Auntie Hannah,

-who had got onto the parsnip wine...

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-..sang that her heart was like

-a bird's nest. Everybody laughed.

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-And then what happened?

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-And then, I went to bed.

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-It all sounds like

-an ordinary Christmas.

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-It was.

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-Bedtime!

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-But I still don't think

-the snow was different.

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-Oh, but it was!

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-Oh, but it was!

-

-How could snow be different then?

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-How could snow be different then?

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-Hush, I'll show you later.

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-# It's late in the evening

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-# My family's around

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-# I look out of my window

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-# There isn't a sound

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-# The feeling inside me

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-# As I snuggle up tight

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-# Is happy and cosy

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-# On Christmas night

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-# And I dream of your stories

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-# Of magical joy

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-# Of Christmas

-when you were a little boy

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-# We walked in the country

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-# And down to the sea

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-# We walked in the mountains

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-# Just you and me

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-# Now morning is near

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-# And you have to go

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-# But I'll think of your stories

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-# When you have to go #

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