Reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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how the grinch stole christmas by dr Seuss, every who down in Whoville liked christmas a lot, but the grinch who lived just north of Whoville did not. The grinch hated christmas the whole christmas season. Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be perhaps that his shoes were too tight, but I think the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small, but whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes, he stood there on christmas eve, hating the whos, staring down from his cave with a sour grinchy frown at the warm lighted windows below in their town. For he knew every who down in Whoville beneath was busy now hanging a mistletoe reef and they're hanging their stockings, he snarled with a sneer. Tomorrow is christmas, it's practically here then, he growled with his grinch fingers nervously drumming. I must find some way to stop christmas from coming for tomorrow. He knew all the who. Girls and boys would wake bright and early. They'd rush for their toys and then oh the noise or the noise Noise Noise noise, that's the one thing he hated. The Noise Noise. Noise noise Then the whos young and old would sit down to a feast and they'd feast and they'd feast and they'd feast feast. Feast. Feast, they would feast on. Who pudding and rare, who roast beast, which was something. The grinch couldn't stand in the least. And then they do something he liked least of all every who down in Whoville. The tall and the small would stand close together with christmas bells ringing. They'd stand hand in hand and the whose would start singing. They'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing sing, sing, sing. And the more the grinch thought of this, Who christmas sing the more the grinch thought I must stop this whole thing. Why, for 53 years I put up with it now we must stop this christmas from coming. But how then he got an idea. An awful idea. The grinch got a wonderful, awful idea. I know just what to do. The grinch laughed in his throat and he made a quick Santy claus hat in a coat and he chuckled and clucked. What a great grinchy trick with this coat and this hat, I look just like saint nick. All I need is a reindeer. The grinch looked around, but since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found. Did that stop the old grinch? No, the grinch simply said, If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead. So we called his dog max. Then he took some red thread and he tied a big horn on the top of his head. Then he loaded some bags and some empty old sacks on a ramshackle sleigh and he hitched up bold max. Then the grid said, yup and the sleigh started down toward the homes where the whos lay a snooze in their town. All their windows were dark, quite snow filled the air. All the whos were all dreaming sweet dreams without care. When he came to the first little house on the square, This is stop # one. The old grinchy claus hissed and he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist. Then he slid down the chimney a rather tight pinch, but if santa could do it then so could the grinch? He got stuck only once For a moment or two. Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue where the little who stockings all hung in a row, these stockings, he grinned all the first things to go. Then he slithered and slunk with a smile most unpleasant around the whole room and he took every present pop guns and bicycles, roller skates, drums, checkerboards, tricycles, popcorn and plums, And he stuffed them in bags. Then the grinch very nimbly stuffed all the bags, one x 1 up the chim Brulee. Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the whose feast he took the who pudding. He took the roast beast. He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash. Why that grinch even took their last can of who hash. Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee and now grinned the grinch, I'll stuff up the tree and the grinch grabbed the tree and he started to shove when he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove. He turned around fast and he saw a small who, little Cindy lou! Who Who is not more than two. The grinch had been caught by this tiny who daughter who got out of bed for a cup of cold water. She stared at the grinch and said, santa claus, wow! Why are you taking a christmas tree world? But you know that old grinch was so smart and so slick. He thought up a lie and he thought it up quick. Why my sweet little talk? The fake santa claus lied. There's a light on this tree, It won't light on one side. So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear, I'll fix it up there, then I'll bring it back here. And this fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head and he got her a drink and he sent her to bed and when Cindy lou who went to bed with her cup, he went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up. Then the last thing he took was the log for their fire. Then he went up the chimney himself. The old liar on their walls, he left nothing but hooks and some wire and the one speck of food that he left in the house was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse. Then he did the same thing to the other whose houses leaving crumbs much too small for the other Who's mouses? It was a quarter past dawn. All the whos still abed, although whos still a snooze? When he packed up his sled, packed it up with their presence. The ribbons, the wrappings, the tags and the tinsel, the trimmings, the trappings 3000 ft up up the side of Mount Crumpet. He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it. Who who's tula whose? He was graciously humming. They're finding out now. No christmas is coming. They're just waking up. I know just what they'll do That must have been hoping for a minute or two. And then the whos down in Whoville will all cry boo hoo! That's a noise, grinned the grinch. Then you must simply here. So he paused and the grinch put his hand to his ear and he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low. Then it started to grow. But the sound wasn't sad why the sound sounded mary, it couldn't be so, but it was mary very! He stared down at Whoville. The grinch popped his eyes. Then he shook what he saw was a shocking surprise. Every who! Down in Whoville, the tall and the small was singing without any presents at all. He hadn't stopped christmas from coming. It came somehow or other. It came just the same. And the grinch with his grinch feet ice cold in the snow stood puzzling and puzzling. How could it be? So it came without ribbons? It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags that, and he puzzled three hours til his puzzler was sore. Then the grinch thought of something he hadn't before. Maybe christmas. He thought it doesn't come from a store. Maybe christmas, perhaps it means a little bit more. And what happened then? Well, in Whoville, they say that the grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day in the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight. He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light and he brought back the toys and the food for the feast. And he, he himself, the grinch carved the roast beast.