Sybil Bruncheon's "Christmases That Mostly WEREN'T!"... snack time at the North Pole...

It was well known that Santa "was chubby and plump" and shaped "like a bowl full of jelly", but no one ever discussed his voracious appetite other than the cookies that millions of children left for him on Christmas night all around the entire world... and WHY they might have! Why, indeed?! Gradually though, children began to notice fewer and fewer reindeer accompanying Santa on his travels... first Donner, then Blitzen, and finally Dasher, Vixen, Comet, and eventually poor, trusting Cupid... gone, all gone... never to be seen again.

It was that particular Christmas in 1943 when only Dancer and Prancer, thoroughly exhausted, failed to clear Mt. Beauregard in the Ozarks. Santa and his entire sleigh plunged from a height of three and half miles into a remote canyon somewhere in Arkansas...

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