How Giygas Stole Christmas
"If Dr.Seuss were on the EB Dev team"
By Fritz42
Note:Jeff wanted to make it but his name threw off the Story so he spent christmas at home :-)
Every One Down in Onett Liked Christmas a lot...
But Giygas,Who lived just north of Onett, Did NOT! Giygas hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But, Whatever the reason, His heart or his shoes, He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Ness paula and Poo, Staring down from his cave with a sour, Giygas frown At the warm lighted windows below in their town. For he knew Ness paula and Poo down in Onett beneath Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.
"And they're hanging their stockings!" he snarled with a sneer, "Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically here!" Then he growled, with his Giygas fingers nervously drumming, "I MUST find some way to stop Christmas from coming!" For, Tomorrow, he knew...
...All the Who girls and boys Would wake bright and early. They'd rush for their toys! And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That's one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!Then Ness paula and poo, would sit down to a feast. And they'd feast! And they'd feast! And they'd FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST!
They would feast on Mach-pudding, and rare Mach-roast beast Which was something that Giygas couldn't stand in the least!
And THEN They'd do something He liked least of all! Every one down in Onett, the tall and the small, Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing. They'd stand hand-in-hand. And Every one would start singing!
They'd sing! And they'd sing! And they'd SING! SING! SING! SING! And the more Giygas thought of this Onett-Christmas-Sing, The more Giygas thought, "I must stop this whole thing!" "Why, for fifty-three years I've put up with it now!" "I MUST stop this Christmas from coming!
...But HOW?"
Then he got an idea! An awful idea! Giygas GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
"I know just what to do!" Giygas laughed in his throat. And he made a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat. And he chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Giygas trick!" "With this coat and this hat, I look just like Saint Nick!" "All I need is a reindeer..." Giygas looked around. But, since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found. Did that stop old Giygas...? No! Giygas simply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead!" So he called his dog, Max. Then he took some red thread And he tied a big horn on the top of his head. THEN He loaded some bags And some old empty sacks On a ramshackle sleigh And he hitched up old Max. Then Giygas said, "Giddap!" And the sleigh started down Toward the homes where Ness paula and Poo Lay a-snooze in their town.
All their windows were dark. Quiet snow filled the air. Every one in Onett were all dreaming sweet dreams without care When he came to the first little house on the square. "This is stop number one," the old Giygas Claus hissed And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch. But, if Santa could do it, then so could this Grinch. He got stuck only once, for a moment or two. Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue Where Ness paula and poo's stockings all hung in a row. "These stockings," he grinned, "are the first things to go!"
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant, Around the whole room, and he took every present! Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then Giygas, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!
Then he slunk to the icebox. He took Ness paula and poo's feast! He took Poo's-pudding! He took the roast beast! He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash. Why, Giygas even took the last can of Poo's-hash!
Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee. "And NOW!" grinned Giygas, "I will stuff up the tree!"
And the Giygas grabbed the tree, and he started to shove When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove
He turned around fast, and he saw Little Poo! Little Dalam-Poo Who, Knew much Kung Foo!
Giygas had been caught by Poo who was quite Botherd Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water. he stared at Giygas and said, "Santy Claus, why, "Why are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?"
*Song!
But, you know, that old Giygas was so smart and so slick He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick! "Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Santy Claus lied, "There's a light on this tree that won't light on one side." "So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear." "I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."
And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted his head And he got him a drink and he sent him to bed. And when Poo went to bed with his cup, HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!
Then the last thing he took Was the log for their fire! Then he went up the chimney, himself, the old liar. On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire.
And the one speck of food That he left in the house Was a crumb that was even too small for Small Exit mouse.
Then He did the same thing To All other houses
Leaving crumbs Much too small For the all the Exit mouses! It was quarter past dawn... Every one, still a-bed, Every one, still a-snooze When he packed up his sled, Packed it up with their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit, He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it! "Pooh-Pooh to Poo!" he was Giygas-ish-ly humming. "He's finding out now that no Christmas is coming!" "They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!" "Their mouths will hang open a minute or two Then every Onettion down in Onett will all cry Boo-Hoo!"
"That's a noise," grinned Giygas, "That I simply MUST hear!" So he paused. And Giygas put his hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it started to grow... But the sound wasn't sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! It
couldn't be so! But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Onett! Giygas popped his eyes! Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Onettion down in Onett, the tall and the small, Was singing! Without any presents at all!
He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And Giygas, with his Giygas-feet ice-cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?" "It came with out ribbons! It came without tags!" "It came without packages, boxes or bags!" And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then Giygas thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
And what happened then...? Well...in Onett they say That the Giygas's small heart Grew three sizes that day!
And the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight, He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light And he brought back the toys! And the food for the feast! And he...
...HE HIMSELF...! GIYGAS carved the roast beast!
By Fritz42