A Santa Story

Hi! I'm Santa! Every year I go around the world to deliver presents.....except last year! Last year I got lost in Japan. Mrs. Claus gave me sandwiches, two cans of beer, two cans of coke, five pieces of Christmas cake, three pieces of chocolate cake and off we went with Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph up at the front. I went to Greenland first and had just finished alot of countries when I started to get thirsty. I picked up a can which I thought was coke because it was very dark. I drank it and it tasted different. Anyways, I drank another can. After a while I began to feel a bit weird and wobbly. Then the police saw me and gave me a speeding ticket and asked me to go down to the police station. When I got there, there was a big fat bald-headed overgrown ugly man in my cell. He was being let free that night so I asked him to do me a favour. I asked him to drive the sleigh. He said that he didn't know how so I gave him some tips. It took five minutes and off he went. On Christmas Day Mrs. Claus was very worried about me but I was let free and went home to her. The next day the big ugly man came back and had all the presents delivered. I thanked him very much and later he became my head elf.

by Eleanor Tracey (Age 9)