A Christmas Story Kitty, December 19, 2019July 26, 2022 0 0 Read Time:1 Minute, 15 Second This poem, about a santa-doubting little boy, is from Edgar A. Guest’s book Rhymes of Childhood. (1924) A Christmas StoryEdgar A. Guest Now, children, if you will gather about,I’ll tell you the story of little Tom Doubt.Just sit on the floor there and look up at me;Yes, yes, I’ll take two of you—one on each knee— And now I’ll begin. Well, this little Tom DoubtSaid he couldn’t figure old Santa Claus out.He said that no reindeer could patter a hoofOr gallop like mad on his snow-covered roof;And he said that his chimney he knew was too smallFor a white-whiskered saint to get down it at all,And he didn’t believe that the girls and the boysFrom Santa Claus ever got candies and toys. Now little Tom Doubt said: “I’ll prove that I’m right;No letter to Santa Claus this year I’ll write.I want a new sled and I want a new drum,But I won’t let him know that I want him to come.I’ll test out the Santa Claus story this year—I won’t even tell him that I’m living here.” When he woke in the morning, he found by his bedThe drum that he longed for, the new shiny sled,And all that he wanted, yet never had told,And his look of surprise was a joy to behold.“Why, he’s real! He has been here!” cried little Tom Doubt,“But however did Santa Claus find all this out?” About Post Author Kitty admin@silentphotoplay.com Happy 0 0 % Sad 0 0 % Excited 0 0 % Sleepy 0 0 % Angry 0 0 % Surprise 0 0 % 0 0 votes Article Rating Loading Likes... Antique Books Christmas Holidays Poems ChristmasreindeersantaWinter