'Twas the
night before Christmas & out on the ranch
The pond was froze
over & so was the branch.
The snow was piled
up belly-deep to a mule.
The kids were all
home on vacation from school,
And happier young
folks you never did see-
Just all sprawled
around a-watchin' TV.
Then suddenly,
some time around 8 o'clock,
There came a
surprise that gave them a shock!
The power went
off, the TV went dead!
When Grandpa came
in from out in the shed
With an armload of
wood, the house was all dark.
"Just what I
expected," they heard him remark.
"Them power line
wires must be down from the snow.
Seems sorter like
times on the ranch long ago."
"I'll hunt up some
candles," said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace,
I reckon we'll make out all right."
The teen-agers all
seemed enveloped in gloom.
Then Grandpa came
back from a trip to his room,
Uncased his old
fiddle & started to play
That old Christmas
song about bells on a sleigh.
Mom started to
sing, & 1st thing they knew
Both Pop & the
kids were all singing it, too.
They sang
Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"
Their eyes all
a-shine in the ruddy firelight.
They played some
charades Mom recalled from her youth,
And Pop read a
passage from God's Book of Truth.
They stayed up
till midnight-and, would you believe,
The youngsters
agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose
early, some time before dawn;
And when the kids
wakened, the power was on..
"The power company
sure got the line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa -
& no one suspected his trick.
Last night, for
the sake of some old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the
main switch - the old Son-of-a-Gun!
-anonymous
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