The Christmas reindeer

He told her how all the year through the fairies and elves and trolls and gnomes were busy down in this valley, hidden by the wondrous many-colored mist, making the things which he was to take on his yearly journey to make glad the hearts of little children.

he explained how it grieved him when sometimes he could leave nothing because a little girl or a little boy had not been good he told her how the spirit of love was abroad throughout all the great world in the christmas season and how those who do for and give to others are the ones in whom the christmas spirit lives all the year through and who thus find the greatest happiness it is not in receiving my dear said he but in giving in love you will find to be that fulness of joy and that sweet content for the beautiful christmas season and does no one give to you kind santa tutu asked a little breathlessly you should have heard santa laugh then indeed you should have heard him laugh you should have seen his eyes twinkle every year i receive the greatest gift in all the great world said he and what is that whispered tutu the love of little children replied santa claus not in all the great world is there any gift to compare with the love of little children and it is mine all mine every christmas chapter eight chapter nine of the christmas reindeer by thornton w burgess chapter nine the chosen deer tuckto still sat on the back of whitefoot as santa claus talked he came over to whitefoot and gently stroked his face whitefoot stood without motion it was the more surprising because whitefoot had always been rather unruly he never had been one to willingly acknowledge a master only tuktu had been able to handle him without trouble santa looked up straight into the eyes of tuktu tell me my dear said he how you came to venture into this valley did you not know that only the deer folk come here yes i knew replied tuckto in a low voice i knew good santa and i would not have thought of coming myself it was whitefoot who brought me here he brought me here and i didn't know where he was bringing me Then she told how she had been lost in the fog, and how, when she had awakened from her nap in the midst of the great herd, she had discovered where she was.

She told how she would have left, even then, but could not.

And her lips trembled a little as she talked, for she was fearful that the good spirit might think that she had done wrong.

Better than that, it will be happy.

Abruptly Whitefoot turned and began to move away.

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