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For today's podcast, I've gotten

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together an amazing group of

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English learners from all over

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the world to bring you

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a very special reading of

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a visit from St. Nicholas,

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the iconic Christmas poem written

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by Clement Clark Moore in

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1837. They

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all did a super job on

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this. And without further

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ado, let's begin.

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["The Christmas Tree"]

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It was the night before Christmas

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when all through the house that

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the creature was stirring not even

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a mouse. The tokens were hung

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by the chimney with care in

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hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

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The children were nestled all

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snug in their bed while visions

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of sugarplums danced in their

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heads. In her

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key shift, an eye in my

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cap had just settled our brains

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for a long winter snap. When

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I was on the lawn there was a hatch

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of clouds. I sprung from

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my bed to see what was

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the matter. I went to the

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window a few like a flash,

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tore open the shutters and threw

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up the sash. The moon

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on the breast of the new

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forest gnaw gave a lasso of

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metal to objects below. When the

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water my wandering eyes did appear,

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but the miniature flayed and

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ate tiny reindeer. With a

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little old driver so lively

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and quick, I knew in

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a moment he must be

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Saint Nick. More rapid than eagles,

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his calls of decay and he

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whistled in shelter and called them

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by name. No dancer, no dancer,

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no trancer and listen. On

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comets, on cubits, on donna

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and glisten. To the top of

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the porch, to the top of the wall.

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Now dash away, dash away, dash away all.

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I believed that before the wild

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hurricane fly, when they meet with

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the obstacle mount to the sky.

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So up to the cloud stop,

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the coasters flew with the sway-full

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of toys and Saint Nick was

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too. And then in twinkling I

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heard on the roof the pressing

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and purring of each little fush.

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As I drew in my head

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and was turning around, down

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the chimney Saint Nicholas came

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with a bone. He was

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drizzled or even far from

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his head to his foot

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and his toes were all

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tarnished with ashes and

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soot. A bundle of toys

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he had flung on his

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back and he looked like

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a peddler just opening his

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back. Besides how the twinkling

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is dancing, how merry his

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cheeks were like. But

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Rosie is known like a chariot.

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He strode the two mouths, was

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drawn up like a bowl, and

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the bear on his chin was

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as quiet as a snow. The sample

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of a pipe he held tight

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in his teeth, and smoked it and

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circled his head like a wreath.

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He had a bro face and a

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little rumba belly that shook when

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he laughed like a bowlful of

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jelly. Ho ho ho ho.

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He was chubby and plump a

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right jolly old elf, and laughed

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when I saw him in

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spite of my self. A

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wink of his eye and a twist

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of his head soon gave me to

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know I had nothing to dress. He

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spoke not a word, but went

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straight to his block and filled

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all the stockings, then turned with

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a chirp. And laning

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his finger or side of

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his nose and giving a

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nod of the chimney he

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rose. He sprang to his

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leg, to his team, gave

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a whistle, and away they

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all flew like the dump

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of the sizzle. But I

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thought he explained. Here he drove all

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the way to the sky. Happy Christmas

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to all, and to all a good

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night. Ho ho ho ho ho. Ever

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