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A Dutch Legend That Grew Into A Yule Classic If Dr. Clement C. Moore of New York city hadn’t been delayed in his last minute shopping on Christmas Eve in 1822, the world might never have heard his famotE Christmas poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas*’. Moore, a scholarly theologian and a wealthy land owner, had been shopping for a turkey for a gift basket for a poor family. He stopped to chat with Jan Duycknkk, a jolly old Dutchman who had been employed as a handyman in Moore’s neighborhood. Duycknick was an authority on Dutch legends and told Moore about St. Nicholas, an early bishop, and of the devotion of Dutch children to him. Moore, then 33, listened like a boy as Duycknick regaled him with story after story about St. Nicholas, who visa ted good Dutch children on Christinas and gave them presents for being good during the year, and traveled thru the sky on a sleigh | pulled by reindeer. Charmed by Legend

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Moore described Duycknick as a “jolly old Dutchman with rosy, dimpled cheeks and a white beard.” When the Dutchman had i finished it was dark and Moore was late for supper. He drove home in < his horse drawn sleigh and wonder- . ed why, despite the large number ; of Dutch emigrants to .America, no one bad placed in poetry the charm- < ing legend of St. Nick. When he got home he sat down and wrote the poem before dinner. Later that evening he read it to his children before the fireplace. That is the story of where, when, and why Moore wrote the composition, according to a study of available texts and periodicals in the Chicago public library. It is sometimes called ‘‘The Night Before Christmas" because of its opening lines: “ Twas the night before Christmas when all thru the house. “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Moore wrote the poem to amuse his children, according to biografers. because he felt he was too stem a disciplinarian and that they fear- j ed him. It was the ideal “extra" Christmas present of a learned man. Neighbor Copies It His children did not like the poem when they first heard it but when a neighbor girl delightedly memoriz- j ed it. they paid it more attention. The following summer a Miss Har-1 riet Butler of Troy, N. Y., visited the Moore home, saw the compo- j sition and obtained permission to copy it for her album. She returned home and the following winter sent the poem unsigned to the editor of the Troy (N. Y.> Sentinel, a newspaper, where it was published for the first time on Dec. 23. 1823. The now famous title was supplied by the editor. First a few, then hundreds of readers wrote the paper for permission to copy it. Then editors of other newspapers copied it. In 1830 The Sentinel promoted the composition with wood engravings of Santa Claus scenes for use by the paper’s circulation department in selling Christmas editions of the paper. Displeased by Publication Moore was displeased when he saw it in print, biografers agree. He was the son of Episcopal bishop of New York and was a professor of theology’ and oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological seminary’. He had compiled the first Hebrew lexicon in the United States. He felt that the admission of authorship of the poem would endanger his dignity as a professor and detract from the fame he felt he had earned with the lexicon. He consid-

ered the poem “nonsensical” and as “only the refuse of my thoughts.” Finally, in 1844, he acknowiedged ownership by including the poem in a book of verses he published, and confessed he had used Duycknick i and himself as models for the word I portrait he painted of Santa Claus. But it was not until after Moore's I death in 1863 that poetry critics and I publishers of school readers helped ■ the poem gain national prominence and earned for Moore the title, supplied by two biografers, of "the greatest press agent the old saint <St. Nicholas' ever had.” And This Is the Poem The poem, as Dr. Moore wrote it, follows: 'Twas the night before Christmas when all thru tlie house Not a creature was stirring, not i even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the . ctiimney with care. In hopes that St. Nicholas soon I would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds. While \is:ons of sugar plums danced in their heads: And mamma in her 'kerchief and i I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap — When out on the lawn there came such a clatter. I sprang from my bed to see what ! was the matter. : Away to the window I flew like a j flash, ■ Tore open the shutters and threw ; the sash. The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow Gave a luster of midday to objects below; When what to my wondering eyes should appear. But a miniature sleigh and eight ! tiny reindeer. With a little old driver, so lively j and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came. And he whistled and shouted and called them by name: “Now Dasher, now Danceh! now Prancer and Vixen! Stuff an extra roll of film in the snapshooter’s Christmas stocking. On Comet! on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall — .Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!” As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the housetop the cours-

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ers they flew. With the 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 head, and was i turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas; came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his j head to his foot. And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot: A bundle of toys he had flung on his back .And he looked like a peddler just | opening his pack. His eyes how’ they twinkled! His dimples how merry His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; i His droll little mouth was drawn | up like a boy. And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe he held tight : in his teeth. 1 And the smoke it encircled his j head like a wreath. He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughted. 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. I A wink of his eye and a twist of his head j 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 i he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his ! team gave a whistle. I 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 a good night!"

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