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ID you ever wonder, children dear, How Santa always knows Just what to bring you Christmas Eve? Did you for once suppose He comes around throughout the year To watch the girls and boys And find out what they want the most In the way of dolls and toys?

Ah, no indeed! Old Santa is A very busy elf, And has no time to go around And find out for himself; And so he sends his son—what’s that? You think that isn’t true? Oh, yes! He has a little son, And a little daughter too!

This little son, when Christmas time Draws nearer, day by day, Goes driving all around the world In a tiny golden sleigh. ’Tis drawn by twenty wee white mice; And, scampering o’er the ground, They stop at every chamber where A good boy’s to be found.