Drabble by Kevin Fagan for December 23, 2007

Transcript:

"'Twas the night before Christmas..." "'Twas??" "Short for 'it was'!" "They should've just said 'it was'!" "Yeah they only saved one letter!" "When all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." "They had mice?!" "Everyone had mice in those days" "That's disgusting!" "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care..." "Yeah, right if they did anything with care they wouldn't have mice!" "Was this before the black plague?" "Aren't you supposed to hang them on the chimney?" "...In hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there." "'Saint Nicholas'??" "Short for Santa Claus!" "Nah-ahh! Saint Nicholas has 13 letter and Santa Claus only has 10!" "That ended early!" "I didn't want to get into the dancing sugarplums!"