Chapter 1: What happens on the night before Christmas?
"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring. not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. And Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled down for a long winter's nap when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew in a flash and tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of new-fallen snow Gave the luster of midday to objects below. And what to my wondering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer? With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St.
Chapter 2: How does the narrator describe St. Nicholas's arrival?
Nick. More rapid than eagles, as cautious they came. And he whistled and shouted, called them by name. Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen, on Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen. To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall.
Chapter 3: What are the characteristics of St. Nicholas as described in the poem?
Now dash away, dash away, dash away all. dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly when they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky so up to the housetop his courses they flew with a sleigh full of toys and st. Nicholas too and then in a twinkling I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof as I drew in my hand and was turning around down the chimney st.
Nicholas came with a bound He was all dressed in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
Chapter 4: What actions does St. Nicholas take when he arrives?
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked just like a peddler opening his pack. His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry. His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry. His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke, it had circled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a round little belly that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, and I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings.
then turned with a jerk, and laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
Chapter 5: What is the final message from St. Nicholas at the end of the story?
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "'Happy Christmas to all, and to all, good night.'"