Enter girl (in coat and furs, arms full of packages and holly).
On the night before Christmas
There came to our house,
A right jolly old elf, as still as a mouse;
He filled all the stockings,
Trimmed each Christmas tree,
Made our Christmas merry—a good saint is he!
Enter very small boy (carrying a big book under his arm with 1913 printed on it).
The wild bells rang across the snow,
The old year went—though loath to go;