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<h2>THE GOBLINS' CHRISTMAS</h2>

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<p class="center">Copyright, 1908, by M. E. Anderson</p>

<h1 style="margin-top: 80px;">The Goblins' Christmas</h1>

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<h3>By</h3>

<h2>Elizabeth Anderson</h2>

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<p class="center">Illustrated by Alexander Sharp</p>

<p class="center">Los Angeles<br/>
Segnogram Publishing Co.<br/>
1908</p>

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<img src="https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/_media/etext:m:me-anderson-the-goblins-christmas-once.png" width="100" height="57" alt="Once" title="" />
upon a time I visited Fairy-land and
spent a day in Goblin-town. The people
there are much like ourselves, only they are very,
very small and roguish. They play pranks on one
another and have great fun. They are good natured
and jolly, and rarely get angry. But if one does
get angry, he quickly recovers his good nature and
joins again in the sport.<br/><br/>

If a Goblin should continue angry he would take
on some visible form. Perhaps he would become a
toad or a squirrel, or some other little animal, and
would have to live here on the Earth-plane forevermore.
But, if he keeps good natured, he can come
here and have his fun, and not be seen by any one
except a Seer, or very wise person.<br/><br/>

The Goblins are gracious to the wise people
now, but they were not always so. A long, long
time ago, on a Christmas-eve, the Fairy-folk were
having great sport. All the little people of the
Unseen-world had gathered together in the Earth-realm.
There were Brownies, and Gnomes, and Elves;
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even some little Cherubs had joined them. They
were having a wild dance and a gay time when who
should appear but Kris Kringle! Now the Fairies
did not know that he was a Magician, or Seer,
and so they tried to make sport of him. But Kris
by his wonderful magic, changed them into the most
beautiful toys. They became straight little jumping-jacks,
and dolls in bright dresses, and the dearest
little rabbit with white, soft fur. And somewhere in
the bottom of the sleigh one was turned into a cute
little Teddy-bear. Then old Kris tucked all these
toys into his roomy sleigh, and shook the reins of
his waiting steed. "Go on!" he said, "For I've
many, many a chimney to reach tonight."<br/><br/>

Now this is the tale of "The Goblins' Christmas"
that the moonbeams told, as they heard it
from the Fairy-Queen, who declares that every
word of it is perfectly true.
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<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>
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<h2>Illustrations.</h2>


<table summary="Illustrations">
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<td>"Down the Milky way"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
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<td>"The big black caldron"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td>
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<td style="padding-right: 20px;">"As through the air they flew"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td>
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<td>"They climbed the sleigh"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td>
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<td>"'Playthings rare,' he said"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
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<td>"For his Christmas treat"</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td>
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<td style="padding-top: 20px;">Preface</td>
<td class="right" style="padding-top: 20px;"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
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<td>Presentation</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
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<td>Fairy Queen</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
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<td>Sprite and Toadstool</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td>
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<td>Boy and Rabbit</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td>
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<td>Witch with Broom</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
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<td>Elf and Spider</td>
<td class="right"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
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<h3>To EARL and GEORGIA:</h3>


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little Man, and tiny Maid,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Who love the Fairies in the glade,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Who see them in the tangled grass<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The Gnomes and Brownies, as they pass,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Who hear the Sprites from Elf-land call<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Go, frolic with these Brownies small,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And join these merry sporting Elves,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But ever be your own sweet selves.<br /></span>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">The big bright Moon hung high and round,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">In a densely darkened sky;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The tall pines swayed, and mocked, and groaned;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The mountains grew so high<br /></span>
<span class="i0">That the Man-in-the-Moon came out and said,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">"Ho! Spooks, for a merry dance."<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The winds blow hard, the caverns roar,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">While o'er the earth they prance.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">A Witch and a Goblin led the sprites;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Out from the sky they sprung;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And down the milky way they slid,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And over a chasm swung.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The streams around ran witches' broth,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The fumes were strong and rank.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">These Elfin creatures all were wroth,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">While of the stuff they drank.<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">The cunning Moon looked on and laughed<br /></span>
<span class="i2">With a shrill and sneering jibe;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Her soul grew fat to see them chaffed,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">This mad and elfish tribe.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The big black caldron boiled so high<br /></span>
<span class="i2">With food for these queer mites,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">That it lit the world throughout the sky,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And down came all the Sprites.<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">Their mad career upset a star,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">As through the air they flew:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">It cringed in fear, and shot afar,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And fell where no one knew.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Orion's sword was broke in bits,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Corona's crown was gone,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Capella seemed to lose her wits,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">While all so longed for dawn.<br /></span>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">Then from the night there came a sound<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Of sleigh-bells ringing sweet;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Out of the chaos came a man&mdash;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Kris Kringle&mdash;for his Christmas treat.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">"Ho! Kris!" they cried, "We'll have some fun,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">We'll bind the old man down,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">We'll tie him up, and toss him o'er<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Into our Goblin-town."<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">They climbed the sleigh with shout and din,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To bind his hands and feet;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">A hundred strong they clambered in<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Our good old Kris to meet.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">He sat quite still, with twinkling eyes,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Then seized his mystic wand,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">He raised it up, and waved it round<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Stilled was this chattering band.<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">Stiffly stark and still they stood,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Clad in elfish clothes;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Some were wax, and some were wood,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">One had crushed his nose.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">"Playthings rare," he said and smiled,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">"For children rich and poor;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Some I'll leave the crippled child,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And some at the orphan's door."<br /></span>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">He shook his reins, and called his steed<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To bear him swiftly on.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Full well it knew its Master's need<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To hurry e'er the dawn.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">From house to house they scampered down,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Their sleigh-bells ringing clear,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Through chimneys in the sleepy town&mdash;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Good Kris and his reindeer.<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">The windows rattled, the moonbeams tattled<br /></span>
<span class="i2">A tale so strange and queer.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">They told how at night, in dire affright<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The Moon had hid in fear.<br /></span>
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<img src="https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/_media/etext:m:me-anderson-the-goblins-christmas-img15.png" width="400" height="184" alt="Goblin" title="" />
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">That he'd called in sport his elfish court<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Of spooks and witches gay,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Each Elfin child, by glee beguiled,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Brought scores of others, they say.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Then a man appeared, with flowing beard,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">In a sled with a reindeer fleet;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">They gathered about with din and shout,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To bind him hands and feet.<br /></span></div></div>

<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">Then the Moon laughed loud at the gathering crowd,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">While he held his sides in mirth,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To see old Kris in a plight like this,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Toiling o'er the earth.<br /></span></div></div>

<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
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<img src="https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/_media/etext:m:me-anderson-the-goblins-christmas-img17.png" width="400" height="341" alt="Elf and Spider" title="" />
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">But alas for the Moon, he had laughed like a loon,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">For Kris is a hero of old,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Yes, Kris is a seer; with his small reindeer,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">He captured the Goblins bold.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">And he changed them, they say in a wonderful way,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To toys, for his Christmas cheer.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The big dolls stare with a goblin air,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The small ones cringe with fear.<br /></span></div></div>

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<span class="i0">While the moonbeams prattle, I hear a rattle<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Of hoofs on the chimney side;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then out on the snow I gaze below,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">"Hurrah! it's Kris Kringle," I cried.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Then, sly as a mouse, he entered the house,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And hung up his treasures so gay.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then out with a dash, he sped like a flash,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Into the night, and away.<br /></span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
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<img src="https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/_media/etext:m:me-anderson-the-goblins-christmas-img20.png" width="200" height="307" alt="Witch" title="" />
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<img src="https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/_media/etext:m:me-anderson-the-goblins-christmas-img01.png" width="200" height="133" alt="Goblin" title="" />
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