Sybil Bruncheon's "CHRISTMASES PAST"... precocious children and bothersome adults.

...known for being little geniuses by the M.I.T. community, Bartholomew Crichton at 8 years of age and Enid Crichton at 5 had turned their talents to inventing a fully automated "Santa Robot" to be used in department stores. At the unveiling, the children demonstrated that their machine could perform 46 different amazing tasks, including sitting, standing, walking, climbing both up and down, slinging a 60lb bag of toys on its shoulder, putting the bag back down, unloading each toy individually, handing them gently to the assistants and delighted onlookers, offering his lap to visitors and asking them what they would like for Christmas, and eating cookies. It was after the triumphant exhibition, much later in the night, that a surly janitor decided to give the robot-Santa a cup of hot cocoa from his thermos. In the morning, the authorities found the janitor scattered over ten miles of wooded countryside leading to the orphanage where "Santa" was discovered napping in a manger under the Christmas tree. He was wearing only a diaper made from a bedspread, and had fashioned a halo for himself out of a garbage can lid. The incident was regarded as a miracle by both the scientific and department store communities. International bidding for "The Crichton Santa" was immediate and feverish with competition from the Bergdorf, Bloomingdale, Saks, and Strauss families, from both Tiffany and Cartier, and from the Vatican as well. It was the Smithsonian Institute that finally won, eventually putting the new acquisition next to the Hope Diamond. Enid and Bartholomew went on to work extensively in the new fields of astrophysics and string theory. Mr. Hiram Gallet, the janitor (in pieces!), was gathered up by police personnel, and his body was donated to the Museum of Natural History to be mummified and used in a diorama about cannibals in New Guinea. He had no family or relations. 

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