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- HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
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- by Dr. Seuss
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- >>> A CULT Publication......1987 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- Continuing in the fine literary traditions of the legendary CAT IN THE HAT
- and GREEN EGGS AND HAM, cDc brings you another Dr. Seuss classic for your
- enjoyment. Just in time for the holiday season, you can journey back to
- a time before the dark set in...a simpler time...a time when you didn't live
- in constant fear of feds since your hobby has been deemed illegal...a time
- before your obsession with death and cows...
-
- -Swamp Ratte' 12/4/87
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-
- Every Who
- Down in Who-ville
- Liked Christmas a lot...
-
- But the Grinch,
- Who lived just north of Who-ville,
- 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 that 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 Who-ville beneath
- Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.
-
- "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! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
- That's 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'd do something
- He liked least of all!
-
- Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,
- Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing.
- They'd stand hand-in-hand. And the Whos 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 fifty-three years I've put up with it now!
- "I 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 and 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 he 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 old empty sacks
- On a ramshackle sleigh
- And he hitched up old Max.
-
- Then the Grinch said, "Giddap!"
- And the sleigh started down
- Toward the homes where the Whos
- Lay a-snooze in their town.
-
- All their windows were dark. Quiet 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 number 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, "are 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 stufed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
- Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!
-
- Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the Whos' 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 will 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 tuned around fast, and he saw a small Who!
- Little Cindy-Lou Who, who was not more than two.
-
- The Grinch had been caught by this tiny Who daughter
- Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
- She stared at the Grinch and said, "Santy Claus, why,
- "Why are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?"
-
- 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 tot," the fake Santy Claus lied,
- "There's a light on this tree that 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 his 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 Whos' houses
-
- Leaving crumbs
- Much too small
- For the other Whos' mouses!
-
- It was quarter past dawn...
- All the Whos, still a-bed,
- All the Whos, still a-snooze
- When he packed up his sled,
- Packed it up with their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings!
- The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
- Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit,
- He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!
- "Pooh-Pooh to the Whos!" he was grinch-ish-ly humming.
- "They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!
- "They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
- "Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
- "Then the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry BOO-HOO!
-
- "That's a noise," grinned the Grinch,
- "That I simply MUST hear!"
- 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, this sound sounded merry!
- It couldn't be so!
- But it WAS merry! VERY!
-
- He stared down at Who-ville!
- The Grinch popped his eyes!
- Then he shook!
- What he saw was a shocking surprise!
-
- Every Who down in Who-ville, 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!"
- And then he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
- Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
- "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store.
- "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
-
- And what happened then...?
- Well...in Who-ville they say
- That the Grinch's small heart
- Grew three sizes that day!
- And the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight,
- He wizzed 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!
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