Old Mother Bear by and by began to rock to and fro, half awake, singing sleepily:
“Click, click, click, I must hurry because,
Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, comes Santa Claus.”
Sure enough, Santa Claus was on his way.
Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, went his sleigh bells.
He filled all the animals’ stockings and when he came to the house of Old Mother Bear and saw her big stocking he laughed until his sides shook, saying:
“It’s a great big stocking I do declare,
How can I fill it for Old Mother Bear?”
Then Old Mother Bear woke up and she and Santa Claus danced a hornpipe, and for all I know they are dancing yet:
They must have had a merry time because,