Santa was unhappy. It was getting late on Christmas Eve and nothing was going right.
Mrs Clause had burned Santa’s favorites – the mince pies. The elves were complaining about not getting paid overtime on Christmas Eve. The reindeer, who were in a festive mood, had been drinking all day and were in poor condition for the long trip that night, and to make matters even worse, they had taken the sleigh for a trial spin and had crashed it. The goblins, in their usual uncooperative way, had said it would take hours to fix it in their workshops.
Santa was furious.“ I can’t believe it !! “ he bellowed “ The one day in the year when I have to deliver presents all over the world and the reindeer are drunk, the elves are about to go strike, and I haven’t even got a Christmas tree yet !!.
He raged on ‘I sent that stupid pixie out hours ago to find a tree and he still isn’t back. ‘What a mess “
Just then the door flew open and the pixie stepped in from the cold night, with a big smile he dragged in an enormous Christmas tree covered in mud and snow behind him, dripping water all over Santa’s floor.
“ Yo,ho,ho, fat man “ he beamed. “ I got one. Where do you want me to stick it ? ”
Thus the tradition of little folk atop the Christmas tree came into being.
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