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For today's podcast, I've gotten together
an amazing group of English learners from all

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over the world to bring you a
very special reading of A Visit from Saint

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Nicholas, the iconic Christmas poem written
by Clement Clark Moore in eighteen thirty seven.

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They all did a super job on
this, and without further ado,

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let's begin twice. The night before
Christmas went all through the house. That

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the creature of us during not even
a mouse. The stolkiens were hung by

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the chimney, be scared and hope
that Saint Nicholas soon will be there.

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That children were nestled, all snacked
in their beds, while visions of sugar

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plums danced in their heads. And
Mama and her kischief, and I in

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my cap had just settled our brains
for a long winter. Snap were now

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on the lawn. There was had
a quarter. I sprung from my bed

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to see what was the matter?
Ay to the window. I feel like

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a flash to open the shutters and
threw up the sash. The moon on

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the breast of the new folds snow
gave a last room. Mid day two

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objects below. When you wake to
my wandering eyes didn't appear, but a

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minature sleigh and a tiny reindeer with
a little old driver. So lively and

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quick I knew in a moment he
must be Saint Nick more rapid than eagles,

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his courser. They came, and
he wistened and shout and called them

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by name. Now Danzel, now
Denzil, now Pranza, and listen on

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commers on Cuba, on Donna,
and plassen to the top of the port,

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to the top of the wall,
now dejhway, dejhway, deshaway,

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or as leaves that before the wild
hurricane fly when they meet with the obstacle,

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mount to the sky. So up
to the house top. The courser

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slave flew with a slave full of
toys, and Saint Nicholas too. I'm

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there in twinkling, I heard on
the roof the prancing and pouring of each

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weatherproof. As I drew in my
head and was turning around down the chimney,

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Saint Nicholas came with a bone.
He was dressed in fair from his

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head to his foot, and his
clothes were all tournished with ashis and suit.

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A bundle of toys he had flung
on his back, and he looked

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like a pedlar, just opening his
back his high How the tree is dent,

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How mary his cheeks well le rosing, is his nose like a cherry.

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He strolled, little mouth was drawn
up like a bowl, and the

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bed on his cheeld was as quiet
as to snow. The stump of a

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pipe he held tight in his teeth
and smoked it encircled his head like a

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wrist. He had a brow face
and a little round belly that shook when

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he laughed, like a bow full
of Charlie. Oh, he was chubby

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and plump, a right jolly old
elf, and laughed when I saw him

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in spite of myself. A wink
of his eye and a twist of his

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head soon gave me to know I
had nothing to dread. He spoke not

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a word, but went straight to
his work and filled all the stockings.

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Then turned with a jerk, and
raining his finger or side off his nose,

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and giving a nut of the chimney. He rose. He sprang to

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his leg, to his team,
give a whistle in a way. They

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all flew like the down of the
thistle. But I heard him exclaim here

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he drove out of sight, Happy
Christmas to all, and all orgognized Hopo, Hopole,