The Merry-Go-Round River

A-A-A-A! Don't turn that dial. This is the right station. If you wish to hear about Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the moon. There once was a lad, a wee little tad, whose name was Jonathan Thomas, who got into a fix when he was six, because he kept a promise.

You see, he went to the moon one night and got himself in a terrible fright. He was chasing Gus, because Gus ran away. Gus was his teddy bear, who thought it would pay to chase two elephants up to the moon, And he ran and ran and got there soon.

And he didn't get cold in spite of the frost, but what he did do was to get himself lost. Poor Jonathan Thomas nearly broke his heart, because he and Gus had never been apart, and he looked and looked, but all in vain.

And when he started for home again, he knocked at a door which wasn't there before, and when it was answered more sooner than soon, the man who answered was the man in the moon, who invited him in and said to him, I'll give you breakfast if you like, or you must be hungry

after such a long hike, and then quick as a wink, what do you think? Crash, bang, bing, boom, till all the people were filled with gloom, and I'll bet you can't guess what the reason was the sweet bobblyums had kidnapped Santa Claus. How the bells rang out, how the people did shout, for it was also very sad, and then much to his shame they said he was

to blame. By he, I mean Jonathan Thomas. Why, they called him a spy and a terrible guy, and they made him faithfully promised to obey all the laws and find Santa Claus, which is very hard to do, till the man in the moon said, I'll go to. And so off they went, without