The stocking were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that _______________ soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of ______________ danced in their heads.

And mamma in her 'kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter's _______.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the _______ I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow, gave the luster of midday to the objects below, when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh and ________ tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be Saint Nick. More rapid than ________ his coursers they came, and he whistled and shouted, and called them by name

Now, _________! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now, dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane flew, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; so up to the housetop the coursers they flew, with a sleigh full of ______, and St. Nicholas too.

And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof, the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a _____________.

He was dressed all in ______ from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

A bundle of ____________ he had slung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like ____________, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; the stump of his pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke, it encircled his head like a _____________.

He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook when he _________ like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old _________, and I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, bet went straight to his work, and filled all the _________________ then turned with a jerk. And laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a ______________, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight, "Happy _____________ to all, and to all a good night,"