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Tonight, I will be reading The Kidnapped Santa Claus by El Frank Baum. So lie down, close your eyes and let me read you a story.

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big rambling castle, in which his toys are manufactured.

His workmen, selected from the rills, nooks, pixies and fairies live with him, and everyone is as busy as can be

from one year's end to another. It is called The Laughing Valley, because everything there is

happy and gay. The brook chuckles to itself as it leaps, rollicking between its green banks.

The wind whistles merrily in the trees.

The sunbeams dance lightly over the soft grass, and the violets and wild flowers look smiling

up from their green nests.

To laugh one needs to be happy, to be happy, one needs to be content, and throughout the

Laughing Valley of Santa Claus, contentment reigns supreme.

On one side is the mighty forest of Bursey, at the other side stands the huge mountain

that contains the caves of the demons,

and between them the valley lies smiling and peaceful.

One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy,

would have no enemies on all the earth, And as a matter of fact, for a long

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