Getting Rubies At The Rainbow Bridge

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. Now I hope every little girl in Boyle will be very quiet, so they may enjoy this wonderful story of Jonathan Thomas, who made such a very important promise.

Now, of course, you remember how it all came about, but if you shouldn't, I haven't a doubt it won't take longer to mind you again. So this is the way the story began. You see, the squiboblims broke all the laws and kidnapped poor old Santa Claus, and so it was up to the man in the moon and Jonathan Thomas to bring him back soon.

So they climbed on the back of Gorgon's Ola the horse for it is a long way to go, but then of course it was a dangerous road past the house of the toad and over a river so wide, and past the dwarfs who were nice and who gave them some advice about the wicked old

witch of rumple stitch, who came flying up on her broom, and she laughed and screamed in the awfulest way, and said they were all headed for doom, and she cast a bad spell which worked very well in the enchanted forest of sleep, but a good fairy queen was very soon seen when they said the word they had to say, a word they had heard from the dwarfs on the

away, a magical word that went this way, Hunsqueenon squeegiggly vey, and the good fairy queen gave them a charm, to keep them quite safe from every alarm. But then Whiskery Bill, in the forest of sleep, scared the horse till he couldn't stand still, then what do you think, as quick as a wink, Jonathan Thomas fell off, and went soundous,