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Hello and welcome to meet
isopods first annual Christmas

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special. I'm your host D Mitas.
On this episode, I'm straying a

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bit from the usual format. I'll
be reading for you A Visit from

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St. Nicholas, better known as
Twas the Night Before Christmas.

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After the poem, I'm going to be
playing some handpick Christmas

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music that I think you'll all
enjoy. Merry Christmas,

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everybody. A Visit from St.
Nicholas by Klymit clock more.

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Towards the night before
Christmas, and all through the

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house, not a creature was
stirring, not even a mouse. The

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stockings were hung by the
chimney with care, in hopes that

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St Nicholas would soon be there.
The children were nestled all

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snug in their beds, while
visions of sugar plums danced in

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their heads. And mama and her
kerchief and I and my cap had

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just settled our brains for a
long winter's nap, went out on

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the lawn there are rules such a
clatter, I sprang from my bed to

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see what was the matter. Away to
the window I flew like a flash,

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I tore open the shutters and
threw up the sash. The moon on

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the breast of the new fallen
snow gave a luster of midday to

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objects below. When what to my
wondering eyes should appear,

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but a miniature sleigh and ate
tiny reindeer. With a little old

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driver so lively and quick, I
knew in a moment that must be

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St. Nick. More rapid than eagles
his courses they came and he

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whistled and shouted and called
them by name. No Dasha, no

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dancer now Prancer and Vixen. On
comet on Cupid, on Donner and

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Blitzen. To the top of the porch
to the top of the wall. Now dash

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away dash away dash away all. As
leaves that before the wild

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hurricane fly on when they meet
with an obstacle mounts to the

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sky. So up to the house atop the
courses they flew, with the

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slave full of toys and St.
Nicholas two. And then in a

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twinkling, I heard on the roof,
the prancing and pawing of each

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little hoof. As I drew in my
head, and was turning around,

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down the chimney St. Nicholas
came with a bound. He was

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dressed all in for from his head
to his foot, and his clothes

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were all tarnished with ashes
and soot. A bundle of toys he

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had flung on his back, and he
looked like a peddler just

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opening his pack. His eyes how
they twinkled. His dimples how

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merry. His cheeks were like
roses, his nose like a cherry.

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His droll little mouth was drawn
up like a bow and the beard on

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his chin was as white as the
snow. The stump of a pipe he

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held tight in his teeth, and the
smoke it encircled his head like

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a wreath. He had a broad face
and had little round belly, that

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shook when he laughed like a
bowl full of jelly. He was

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chubby and plump, alright jolly
old elf, and I laughed when I

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saw him in spite of myself. A
wink of his eye and a twist of

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his head, soon gave me to know I
had nothing to dread. He spoke

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not a word, but went straight to
his work, and filled all the

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stockings then turned with a
jerk, and laying his finger

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aside of his nose, and giving a
nod of the chimney heroes. He

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sprang to his sleigh, to his
team gave a whistle, and a way

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they all flew like the down of a
thistle. But I heard him exclaim

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air he drove out of sight. Happy
Christmas to all and to all a

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good night.

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We

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You trismus my wisdom is yours

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to squat you are you Tonight
just made my wish come True

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Thanks for listening to our very
first Christmas episode. I hope

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you enjoyed, and you can find
links to everything on this

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episode in the show notes at
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Christmas, everybody and a Happy
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