SANTA CLAUS’ ASSISTANTS.
DID you ever wonder, children dear,
How Santa always knows
Just what to bring you Christmas Eve?
Did you for once suppose
He comes around throughout the year
To watch the girls and boys
And find out what they want the most
In the way of dolls and toys?
Ah, no indeed! Old Santa is
A very busy elf,
And has no time to go around
And find out for himself;
And so he sends his son—what’s that?
You think that isn’t true?
Oh, yes! He has a little son,
And a little daughter too!
This little son, when Christmas time
Draws nearer, day by day,
Goes driving all around the world
In a tiny golden sleigh.
’Tis drawn by twenty wee white mice;
And, scampering o’er the ground,
They stop at every chamber where
A good boy’s to be found.
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