[Woodcarver] Night before Christmas

[Jan Oegema]

Merry Christmas,    everyone! 

  

 

   

                                                                         

                      I thought this might bring a smile to your    face 

and a memory to your heart! 

  

'Twas the night before    Christmas & out on the ranch      The       

pond was froze over & so was the branch.  The snow was piled up 

belly-deep to a mule.  

 

The  kids were all home on    vacation from school,   

And happier young folks you never did see-    Just  all sprawled around 

a-watchin' TV.   

 

Then    suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,  There       

came a surprise that gave them a shock!  The power went off, 

the    TV went dead!   

 

When Grandpa came in from out in the shed    with  an armload of wood, 

the house was all dark.  "Just     what I expected," they heard him remark.  

"Them  power line    wires must be down from the snow.  Seems  sorter like times 

on    the ranch long ago."  

 

 "I'll hunt up some candles," said    Mom.  "With their light, And the fireplace, I 

reckon we'll make out    all right."  The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.  

 

Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,   Uncased his old    fiddle 

& started to play  That old Christmas song about bells on    a sleigh.  Mom 

started to sing, & 1st thing they knew Both Pop    & the kids 

were all singing it, too. They sang Christmas carols, they    sang "Holy Night,"      

Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy    firelight.  

 

They played some charades Mom recalled from her    youth,  

And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.      

They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,  

The    youngsters agreed'twas a fine Christmas Eve.     

 

 Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;  And when the    kids 

wakened, the power was on..  "The power company sure got the 

line repaired quick,"      Said Grandpa - & no one    suspected his trick.      

Last night, for the sake of some    old-fashioned fun,      

He had pulled the main switch - the    old Son-of-a-Gun!          

                                                                         

       -anonymous 



Merry Christmas to you all

             Woodbutcher jan 

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