How Snow Bear Met Santa
How Snow Bear Met Santa by LLH 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the wood, the creatures were sleeping, as all creatures should. The bears in their dens, were taking their nap, and wouldn't awake, 'til the running of sap. Except for one bear, with a large appetite, who just couldn't sleep, on that long winter's night. He'd looked in the pantry, on all of it shelves, "I could eat a whole reindeer, or all Santa's Elves", he said in a mutter, as he searched for some food. He looked, but no matter, it did him no good. But then he was startled, by a sound on the roof, like the tinkle of sleigh-bells, and the clatter of hoof. The look on his face, was one full of surprise, then a mean nasty crafty look, came into his eyes. His stomach was growling, he bid it be still, then he pushed up the window, and climbed o'er the sill. He crept through the shadows, and there in the snow, saw shimmer of reindeer, in soft moonlights glow. ...
