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hundred strong they clambered in
Our good old Kris to meet.?He sat quite still, with twinkling eyes,
Then seized his mystic wand,?He raised it up, and waved it round
Stilled was this chattering band.
[Illustration]
[Illustration: They climbed the sleigh]
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
Stiffly stark and still they stood,
Clad in elfish clothes;?Some were wax, and some were wood,
One had crushed his nose.?"Playthings rare," he said and smiled,
"For children rich and poor;?Some I'll leave the crippled child,
And some at the orphan's door."
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
He shook his reins, and called his steed
To bear him swiftly on.?Full well it knew its Master's need
To hurry e'er the dawn.?From house to house they scampered down,
Their sleigh-bells ringing clear,?Through chimneys in the sleepy town--
Good Kris and his reindeer.
[Illustration]
[Illustration: 'Playthings rare,' he said]
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[Illustration]
[Illustration: Fairy Queen]
[Illustration: Boy and Rabbit]
The windows rattled, the moonbeams tattled
A tale so strange and queer.?They told how at night, in dire affright
The Moon had hid in fear.
[Illustration]
That he'd called in sport his elfish court
Of spooks and witches gay,?Each Elfin child, by glee beguiled,
Brought scores of others, they say.
Then a man appeared, with flowing beard,
In a sled with a reindeer fleet;?They gathered about with din and shout,
To bind him hands and feet.
[Illustration: Witch with Broom]
Then the Moon laughed loud at the gathering crowd,
While he held his sides in mirth,?To see old Kris in a plight like this,
Toiling o'er the earth.
[Illustration: Elf and Spider]
[Illustration]
But alas for the Moon, he had laughed like a loon,
For Kris is a hero of old,?Yes, Kris is a seer; with his small reindeer,
He captured the Goblins bold.
And he changed them, they say in a wonderful way,
To toys, for his Christmas cheer.?The big dolls stare with a goblin air,
The small ones cringe with fear.
[Illustration]
While the moonbeams prattle, I hear a rattle
Of hoofs on the chimney side;?Then out on the snow I gaze below,
"Hurrah! it's Kris Kringle," I cried.
Then, sly as a mouse, he entered the house,
And hung up his treasures so gay.?Then out with a dash, he sped like a flash,
Into the night, and away.
[Illustration: For his Christmas treat]
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