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Speaker 1: Welcome to Mind Over Murder. I'm Kristin Dilly.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Bill Thomas, and we're bringing.

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Speaker 1: You a special holiday bonus episode of Mind Over Murder

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with our very first poetry reading.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you mean we're not going to talk about true crime.

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Speaker 1: We are not. There was no way to make Santa

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Claus and it was a serial killer, so we decided

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to just do a street up holiday classic.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 1: We are going to read in tandem for you all.

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A visit from Saint Nicholas, which most people know as

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the Night before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Some people say twas the night before Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And if you had ask my students what twas means,

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they would not be able.

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Speaker 2: To tell you, but you'd explain it to them because

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you're a great teacher.

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Speaker 1: I would certainly try twas the night before Christmas, or

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the night before Christmas, or a visit from Saint nick whatever.

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Float Your boat was first published anonymously in eighteen twenty three,

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and the authorship was later claimed in eighteen thirty seven

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by a gentleman by the name of Clement C. Moore,

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and he claims that he wrote this for his children

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on Christmas Eve in eighteen twenty.

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Speaker 2: Two, and it was first published in the Troy, New

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York newspaper. And like all good literature, there's some controversy

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about who wrote it. There's actually another gentleman who claimed

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that he wrote a Visit from Saint Nicholas, but we'll

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leave it with Clement Seymore.

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Speaker 1: This has been called the best known verses ever written

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by an American, and it is responsible for some of

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these concepts that we have of Santa Claus today. So

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for your listening pleasure, a Visit from Saint Nicholas by

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Clement Seymour.

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Speaker 2: It twas the night before Christmas. Went all through the house,

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not a creature was stirring a mouse. The stockings were

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hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint

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Nicholas soon would be there.

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Speaker 1: The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while

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visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. And Mamma

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in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just

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settled down for a long winter's.

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Speaker 2: Nap, when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter.

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I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

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Away to the window, I flew like a flash tore

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open the shutters and threw up the sash.

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Speaker 1: The moon on the breast, the new fallen snow gave

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the luster of midday to objects below. When what to

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my wandering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and

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eight tiny reindeer.

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Speaker 2: With a little old driver. So lively and quick I

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knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick, more

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rapid than eagles. His coursers. They came, and he whistled

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and shouted and called them by name.

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Speaker 1: Now Dasher, now dancer, now prints, and vixen, on comet,

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on Cupid, on donder, and blitzen. To the top of

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the porch, to the top of the wall. Now dash away,

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dash away, dash away.

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Speaker 2: All as dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly.

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When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.

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So up to the housetop the coursers they flew, with

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a sleigh full of toys, and Saint Nicholas too.

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Speaker 1: And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof

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the prancing and pawing of each little hook. As I

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drew in my hand and was turning around down the chimney,

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Saint Nicholas came with a bound.

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Speaker 2: He was dressed all in fur from his head to

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his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes

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and soot. A bundle of toys he had flung on

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his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening

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his pack.

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Speaker 1: His eyes, how they twinkled, His dimples, how merry. His

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cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry. His

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droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and

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the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

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Speaker 2: The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

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and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

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He had a broad face and a little round belly

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that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

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Speaker 1: He was chubby and plump, all right, jelly, old elf.

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And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.

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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.

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Speaker 2: He spoke not a word, but went straight to his

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work and filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk,

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and laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving

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a nod up the chimney.

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Speaker 1: He rose, he sprang to his sleigh, to his cheem,

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gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the

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down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim ere

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he drove out of sight. Happy Christmas to all, and

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to all a good night from both of us. Here

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at mind of a murder, we'd like to issue a

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Merry Christmas, happy Holidays, and happy and healthy New Year.

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Speaker 2: The