“Crept down the chimney”
As Santa Claus crept down the chimney, he whispered to the Runaway Bunny, “You may help me, little Bunny. You may trim the stockings with holly.”
So he took a bunch of holly from his pack and the Runaway Bunny fastened sprays of it on the stockings.
Then Santa whispered:
“Curl up in a stocking and go to sleep;
Be still as a mouse, and don’t you peep!”
So the Runaway Bunny took off his little sweater, so that he would not be too hot in the warm stocking. Then Santa tucked him into Old Mother Bun’s stocking. He put her presents on the floor. Then he filled Old Father Bun’s stocking from top to toe.
He left a card on the table. He wrote on the card:
“Santa was here to pay a call;