Santa's Twin Read Free Page B

everyone
    and ensure Christmas morning is nonstop fun.

    O ut in the front yard, each girl gets a hug
    from each of the Clauses. Cute as a bug-
    each girl, that is. Well, each Claus too.
Bob says, “I left a big brown cow for you,
prettily gift-wrapped, by one of the trees.”
    Then Santa wants to turn Bob over his knee.

    Bob says, “Giving a cow-that’s not mean.
Remember, with milk we can make ice cream!”
Santa gives his brother a very stern look,
and Bob decides to operate more by the book.
“Okay, so I’ll change the cow into a guppy.
Better yet, make it a small black puppy.”

    T hen into the big sleigh each Claus bounds.
    Mom and Dad are still making curious sounds:
gasps of surprise and squeaks and peeps.
What is the particular problem that keeps
grown-ups from accepting that magic is real,
that it’s okay to believe in what you feel?
     
Into the night, eight reindeer take flight.
The big soaring sleigh is a wondrous sight.
Then Santa and Bob call out from on high:
“Yo, Lottie! Yo, Emmy! Goodbye, goodbye!
Believing in magic, you saved Christmas Day.
Keep believing in us after we’ve gone away!”