Hello and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf,

where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

In our last episode, we read the final pages of the life and adventures of Santa Claus.

I'm so pleased we were able to read this one. and adventures of Santa Claus.

I'm so pleased we were able to read this one,

just in time for the festive season.

And if you celebrated, I hope you had a wonderful time.

In case you fell asleep before we finished, this is a recap of the last episode.

But be warned, if you haven't listened to the whole book and you don't want to know how it ends yet, stop this episode now.

For the rest of you, I will continue.

Thank you. For the rest of you, I will continue. Klaus awoke in the house he thought he would never see again, with a vitality flowing through him he hadn't felt since he was a young man.

When Aack explained that the immortals had deemed him deserving

of the mantle of immortality, he was in awe and overjoyed that he could continue his work.

But the world then was small, and over time the population grew.

Klaus had to work harder and harder in order to ensure no child would ever wake up without a gift on Christmas morning.

The immortals offered him some help. Ack gave his man Kilta, the Nook Prince gave him

Peter, and the real prince gave him neuter, while the fairies gave him the mischievous whisk.

Their assistants running Klaus' operations made his work smoother and more efficient than ever.

But Santa Claus had one more hurdle to overcome ahead of him.

When one year, he attempted to climb down a chimney

that was far smaller than any he had come across before, and it went straight down to the cellar,

not a fireplace. Dumbfounded, he wondered why the builders of these modern houses would have disregard for him,

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