Subject: Old
time Christmas.
'Twas the night before Christmas &
out on the ranch
The pond was froze over & so was
the branch.
The snow was piled up belly-deep to a
mule.
The kids were all home on vacation
from school,
And happier young folks you never did
see-
Just all sprawled around a-watchin'
TV.
Then suddenly, some time around 8
o'clock,
There came a surprise that gave them a
shock!
The power went off, the TV went dead!
When Grandpa came in from out in the
shed
With an armload of wood, the house was
all dark.
"Just what I expected," they
heard him remark.
"Them power line wires must be
down from the snow.
Seems sorter like times on the ranch
long ago."
"I'll hunt up some candles,"
said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make
out all right."
The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in
gloom.
Then Grandpa came back from a trip to
his room,
Uncased his old fiddle & started
to play
That old Christmas song about bells on
a sleigh.
Mom started to sing, & 1st thing
they knew
Both Pop & the kids were all
singing it, too.
They sang Christmas carols, they sang
"Holy Night,"
Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy
firelight.
They played some charades Mom recalled
from her youth,
And Pop read a passage from God's Book
of Truth.
They stayed up till midnight-and,
would you believe,
The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine
Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose early, some time before
dawn;
And when the kids wakened, the power
was on..
"The power company sure got the
line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa - & no one suspected
his trick.
Last night, for the sake of some
old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the main switch - the
old Son-of-a-Gun!
-anonymous
