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Delightful :)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:27
AM
Subject: T'was the night before
Cat-mas
The Night Before Cat-mas
'Twas the night before
Catmas,
When all through the house.
Not a kitten was stirring
Nor
chasing a mouse.
The stockings were hung
By the chimney with
care.
In hopes that St. Kittyclaws
Soon would be there.
The
kittens were nestled
All snug in their beds
While visions of
catnip
Danced in their heads.
Ma Tab with her whiskers
And I in
my cap
Had just settled down
For a winter's catnap.
When outside
the house,
Came such noise
and such strife,
So startled was
I
That I used up a life!
I jumped to the window
And gave a small
"mew"
I perched in the moonlight,
Enjoying the view.
The site of
the snowdrifts
So cold and so white,
Made me purrfectly glad
To be
indoors tonight!
When what to my wondering
Eyes did appear,
But a
feline sized sleigh
And eight tiny cat-deer.
With a little old
driver
So lively and fit,
I knew in a moment
He must be St.
Kit!
So quickly they flew
And with such grace they came!
Then
Kittyclaws smiled
And meowed out
Their names;
"Now Felix! Now
Patches!
Now, Mittens and Muffy!
On, Twinkle! On, Whiskers!
On, Tiger
and Fluffy!
"Don't wake up the collie!
Watch out for the wall!
Go
on past the mailbox!
And try not to fall!"
As kittens will
pounce
On a fat ball of string,
Tails all a-tumbling,
Ready to
spring,
So up to the door frame
The kittens all flew
With a sleigh
full of toys,
And St. Kittyclaws too.
And then in a twinkling
I
heard by the door
The scratching and pawing
Of each little
claw.
As I drew in my head
And was turning around,
Kittyclaws
came
Through the door with a bound!
He was dressed all in
fur
From his head to his feet,
And his whiskers
were
sprinkled
With flurries and sleet.
A bundle of toys
He had flung
on his back
And he looked like a peddler
Just opening his
pack.
His eyes---
How they twinkled!
His whiskers----
So
merry!
His tail was
So fluffy,
His nose like
A cherry!
His
droll little mouth
Was drawn up like a bow,
And the fur on his
chin
Was as white as the snow;
He had a broad face
And a round little
belly
That shook when he purred
Like a bowl full of jelly.
He was
chubby and plump,
A right jolly old cat,
And I laughed when I saw
him
Looking like that;
A wink of his eye and
A flick of his
tail;
I knew our stockings
Would bulge without fail!
He made not
a sound,
He was silent and swift,
Each of the kittens
Was given a
gift.
He washed his paws quickly,
And, twitching his nose.
He gave me
a nod,
Up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh,
And
meowed to the team,
They flew away
in the moonlights
soft
gleam.
But I heard him meow
As he drove out of sight----
"Merry
Cat-mas to all,
And to all a
good-night!"
By:
Virginia Unser
I hope you all enjoyed that. I thought i
was soooo cute! Merry Cat-mas everyone!
:)
Von
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