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Speaker 1: And now to celebrate the holiday season, two time Emmy

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Speaker 1: winner and our beloved mister Feeney William Daniels reading the

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Speaker 1: Night before Christmas, Merry Christmas everyone.

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Speaker 2: Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

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Speaker 2: not a creature was starring, not even a mouse. The

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Speaker 2: stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes

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Speaker 2: that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children were

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Speaker 2: nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar

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Speaker 2: plums danced in their head. And Mama in her kerchief,

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Speaker 2: and me in my camp had just settled our brains

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Speaker 2: for a long winter's nap, when out on the lawn

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Speaker 2: there arose such a clatter. I sprang from my bed

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Speaker 2: to see what was the matter. Away to the window,

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Speaker 2: I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and

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Speaker 2: threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of

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Speaker 2: the new fallen snow gave a luster of midday to

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Speaker 2: objects below. When what to my wondering eyes did appear

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Speaker 2: but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer with a

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Speaker 2: little old driver. So lively and quick I know in

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Speaker 2: a moment he must be Saint Nick more rapid than

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Speaker 2: eagles his courses they came, and he whistled and shouted

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Speaker 2: and caught them by name, Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer,

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Speaker 2: and Vixen's on comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen.

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Speaker 2: To the top of the porch, to the top of

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Speaker 2: the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away, all

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Speaker 2: as leaves that before the hurricane fly when they meet

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Speaker 2: with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to

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Speaker 2: the housetop the courses they flew with a sleaveh full

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Speaker 2: of toys, and Saint Nicholas too, And then intertwinkling. I

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Speaker 2: heard on the roof, the prancing and pawing of each

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Speaker 2: little hoof. As I drew in my head and was

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Speaker 2: turning around down the chimney, Saint Nicholas came with a bound.

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Speaker 2: He was dressed all in fur from head to his foot,

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Speaker 2: and his clothes were all tarnished with asses and soot.

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Speaker 2: A bundle of toys he flung on his back, and

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Speaker 2: he looked like a peddler just opening his back. His eyes,

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Speaker 2: how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry, his cheeks were

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Speaker 2: like roses, his nose like a cherry, his drool little

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Speaker 2: mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard

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Speaker 2: on his chin as white as the snow. The stumps

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Speaker 2: of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and

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Speaker 2: the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He

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Speaker 2: had a broad face and a little brown billy that

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Speaker 2: shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

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Speaker 2: He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.

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Speaker 2: And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.

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Speaker 2: A wink of his eye and a twist of his

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Speaker 2: head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

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Speaker 2: He spoke not a word, but went straight to his

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Speaker 2: work and filled all the stockings. Then turned with a jerk,

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Speaker 2: and laying his finger aside of his nose, and given

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Speaker 2: in a nod up the chimney. He rose, He sprang

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Speaker 2: to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, and

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Speaker 2: away they all flew like a down of a thistle.

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Speaker 2: But I heard him explain here he drove out of sight.

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Speaker 2: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.