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The deer liked the sound of his deep bass voice and kept time to the song
with their hoofbeats on the hard snow; but soon they stopped at another
chimney and Santa Claus, with sparkling eyes and face brushed red by the
wind, climbed down its smoky sides and left a present for every child the
house contained.
It was a merry, happy night. Swiftly the deer ran, and busily their driver
worked to scatter his gifts among the sleeping children.
But the sack was empty at last, and the sledge headed homeward; and now
again the race with daybreak began. Glossie and Flossie had no mind to be
rebuked a second time for tardiness, so they fled with a swiftness that enabled
them to pass the gale on which the Frost King rode, and soon brought them to
the Laughing Valley.
It is true when Claus released his steeds from their harness the eastern sky
was streaked with gray, but Glossie and Flossie were deep in the Forest before
day fairly broke.
Claus was so wearied with his night's work that he threw himself upon his
bed and fell into a deep slumber, and while he slept the Christmas sun
appeared in the sky and shone upon hundreds of happy homes where the
sound of childish laughter proclaimed that Santa Claus had made them a
visit.
God bless him! It was his first Christmas Eve, and for hundreds of years
since then he has nobly fulfilled his mission to bring happiness to the hearts
of little children.
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