They kneel in their stalls on Christmas Eve.

"The red one, the white one, the speckled

and brown,

When the clock strikes twelve, will all kneel

down;

And it happens so every Christmas Eve,

—Well, I'll tell you this, if you won't believe:

"Once, ages and ages ago it was,

I thought I would see for myself, because

I doubted a little, just like you,