Crossing The Frozen River

Ah ah ah! Don't turn that dial! This is the right station if you want to hear about Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the Moon. Hark, ark, the dogs do bark, and really I feel so silly, but I've just come down from the Moon with my hair all willy-nilly.

But I've got good news to tell to you all about little Jonathan Thomas, for I knew how anxious he would be to hear of how he's kept his promise. Well, you remember the witch of Rumpelstitch and the very good Fairy Queen, and what a good friend she's always been to foil the witch's scheme?

Well Jonathan Thomas is still sound asleep, and under the spell in the forest so deep. The Whiskery Bill, that's the squirrel, he ran and ran and ran until he came to the Rainbow's End for the cold wind blows.

He went there, you know, for the Briar Rose, who needed a ruby for its red. That's why to Whiskery Bill she said, please hurry and go with the cold wind glows and bring me a ruby that glows.

And when you've done that, please hurry right back and I'll draw you a red red rose. And then you can keep your promise and awake in little Jonathan Thomas. So Whiskery Bill he ran and ran, even faster and quicker than ever I can.

But before he came to the Rainbow's end, he chanced to meet a very nice friend who happened to be a walrus. Well, together they went, as Bill had been sent, but when they got there, after such wear and tear, they met the Rainbow Keeper, and then they were wiser, for he was a miser.