""Dr. Seuss How the Grinch stole Christmas!"" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, Christmas, bring your light" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome in the Whovenile" "Welcome Christmas, fah who rahmus" "Welcome Christmas, dah who dahmus" "Welcome Christmas, while we stand" "heart to heart and hand in hand" "Trim up the tree with Christmas stuff" "Like bingle balls, and whofoo fluff" "Trim up the tree with goowho gums" "and bizilbix and wums" "Trim every blessed window /and trim every blessed door." "Hang up whoboohoo bricks /Then run out and get some more!" "Hang pantookas on the ceilings /Pile pankunas on the floor" "Trim every blessed needle /on the blessed Christmas tree." "Christmas comes tomorrow /Trim you, trim me!" "Trim up the tree with fuzzle fuzz /And whiffer bloofs, and wuzzle wuzz" "Trim up your uncle and your aunt /with yards of whofut flant." "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, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight." "It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right." "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 holly-who 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 keep Christmas from coming!"" "For, tomorrow, I know All the Who girls and boys" "Would wake up bright and early." "They'd rush for their toys!" "And then!" "Oh, the noise!" "Oh, the noise!" "Noise!" "Noise!" "Noise!" "That's one thing I hate!" "The NOISE!" "NOISE!" "NOISE!" "NOISE!" "And they shrieks, squeaks and squeals racing around on their wheels." "They dance with jang-jinglers tide up to their hells" "They blow their floo-flounders, they bang their tong-tinklers." "They blow their who-hoovers they bang their jang-tinglers." "They beat their tram-tookers they slide their sloo-slunckers." "They beat their flam-fluckers they whack their who-wonkers." "They play noisy games like Zuziv Ka Zev a Roller skates tapler "La Crosse"" "And then they make year's pretty noises the lux on their great big electro-who-cardio-flux." "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 start on Who-pudding, and rare Who-roast-beast" "Roast-beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!" "And THEN" "They'd do something I hate most 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!" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, Christmas, come this way" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, Christmas, Christmas Day" "Welcome, welcome, fah who rahmus" "Welcome, welcome, dah who dahmus" "Christmas Day is in our grasp" "So long as we have hands to clasp" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "They'd sing!" "And they'd sing!" "AND they'd SING!" "SING!" "SING!" "SING!" "And the more the Grinch thought of the 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 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." "I make a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat." "He chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Grinchy trick!" ""With this coat and this hat, I'll look just like Saint Nick!"" "You're mean one, Mr. Grinch." "You really are a heel." "You're as cuddly as a cactus." "You're as charming as a eel." "Mr. Grinch." "You're bad banana" "With a greasy black peel" "You're a monster, Mr. Grinch." "Your heart's an empty hole." "Your brain is full of spiders," "You've got garlic in your soul." "Mr. Grinch." "I wouldn't touch you, with a" "thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole." ""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 Grinch?" "The Grinch simply said," ""If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead!"" "So he took his dog Max." "Then he took some black thread" "And he tied a big horn on top of his head." "Then he loaded some bags" "And some old empty sacks On a ramshakle sleigh." "And he whistle for Max." "Then the Grinch said, "Giddyap!"" "And the sleigh started down" "Toward the homes where the Whos" "Lay a-snooze in their town." "All their windows were dark." "No one knew he was there" "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 minute 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!" "Pompooner pantookers and drums!" "Checkerboards!" "Tricycles!" "Popcorn!" "And plums!" "And he stuffed them in bags." "Then the Grinch, very nimbly," "Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!" "You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch." "You have termites in your smile." "You have all the tender sweetness" "Of a seasick crocodile." "Mr. Grinch." "Given the choice between the two of you" "I'd take the seasick crocodile." "You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch." "You're the king of sinful sots." "Your heart's a dead tomato splotched" "with moldy purple spots, /Mr. Grinch." "You're three decker sauerkraut and /toadstool sandwich" "With arsenic sauce!" "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!"" "As the Grinch took the tree, he started to shove it." "He heard a small sound like the coo of a dove." "He turned around fast, and he saw a small Who!" "Little Cindy-Lou Who, who was not more than two." "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!" ""I, 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 he to bed." "And when Cindy-Lou Who was in bed with her cup," "He crept to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!" "Then he went up the chimney himself, the old liar." "And the last thing he took was a log for their fire." "On their walls he left nothing but hooks, and some wire." "And the one speck of food" "The 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!" "You nauseateme, Mr. Grinch." "With a nauseous super-naus." "You're a crooked jerky jockey" "And you drive a crooked hoos." "Mr. Grinch." "Your soul is an appalling dump heap" "overflowing with the most /disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable," "Mangled up in tangled up knots." "You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch." "You're a nasty, wasty skunk." "Your heart is full of unwashed socks" "Your soul is full of gunk." "Mr. Grinch." "The three words that best describe you," "are as follows, and I quote:" ""Stink, stank, stunk!"" "It was a quarter of 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 snoof!" "The fuzzle!" "The trimmings!" "The trappings!" "Ten thousand feet up!" "Up the side of Mount Crumpit," "He rode with the 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!"" "He paused." "And the Grinch put a hand to his ear." "And he did hear a sound rising over the snow." "It started in low." "Then it started to grow..." "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, Christmas, come this way" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, Christmas, Christmas Day" "Welcome, welcome, fah who rahmus" "Welcome, welcome, dah who dahmus" "Christmas Day is in our grasp" "So long as we..." "But this..." "this sound wasn't sad!" "Why, this sound sounded glad!" "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!"" "He puzzled and puzzled, `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 then... the true meaning of Christmas came through" "And the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches ...plus two." "And now that his heart didn't feel quite so tight," "He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light" "With the smile is his soul, preceded by trumpet, cheerly blowing hoo-hoo." "He rode the Who-ville." "He brought back their toys." "He brought back their food to the Who girls and boys." "He brought back their snoof and their trimmings and fuzzle." "He brought back their pantuckers their dafflers and wuzzle." "He brought everything back." "All the food for the feast." "And he HE HIMSELF...!" "The Grinch carved the roast beast!" "Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer, cheer to all the Whos far and near." "Christmas Day is in our grasp so long as we have hands to clasp." "Christmas Day will always be, just so long as we have we." "Welcome Christmas, while we stand." "Heart to heart and hand in hand." "THE END" "...fah who rahmus" "Welcome Christmas, dah who dahmus" "Welcome Christmas, while we stand" "heart to heart and hand in hand" "Fah who foraze, dah who doraze" "Welcome, welcome, Christmas, Christmas Day."