Chapter 2: The Grinch's Awful Idea to Steal!
"I know just what to do!" The Grinch laughed in his throat.
And he made a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat.
And he chuckled, and clucked, "What a great Grinchy trick!"
"With this coat and this hat, I look just like Saint Nick!"
"All I need is a reindeer..." The Grinch looked around.
But, since reindeer are scarce at anywhere else, there was none to be found.
Did that stop the old Grinch? No! The Grinch simply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer which is very far away from me, I'll make one instead!"
So he called his dog, Max. Then he took some red thread,
And he tied a big horn on the top of his head.
THEN He loaded some bags, and some old empty sacks,
On a ramshackle sleigh and he hitched up old Max.
Then the Grinch said, "Giddyap!" And the sleigh started sliding down,
Toward the homes where the toons laid a-snooze in their town.
All of their homes' windows were dark. Quiet snow and icy wind filled the air.
All the toons were all busy dreaming sweet dreams without care.
When he came to the first little house on the square.
"This is stop number one," the old Grinchy Claus hissed,
And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
Then he slid down the chimney, which could be a rather tight pinch.
But, if Santa could do it, then so could the Grinch.
He got stuck only once, just for a moment or two.
Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue.
Where the colourful stockings were all hung in a row.
"These stockings," he snickered, "are the first things to go!"
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every present!
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!
Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the toons' feast!
He took the Christmas pudding! He took the roasted turkey!
He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash.
Why, that Grinch even took their last can of brown hash!
Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with malicious glee.
"And NOW!" grinned the Grinch, "I will stuff up the tree!"
And the Grinch grabbed the tree, and he started to shove,
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a Japanese girl!
Little Kafuu Chino, who was not more than ten.
The Grinch had been caught by this innocent Japanese girl,
Who'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water to drink with.
She stared at the Grinch and asked poorly, "Santy Claus, why?"
"Why are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?"
But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick,
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet, precious little girl," the fake Santy Claus lied,
"There's a light on this tree that won't light on one side."
"So I'm taking it home to my workshop, my dear."
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."
And his fib fooled the girl. Then he patted her head,
And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed.
And when Kafuu Chino Who went to bed with her cup,
HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!
Then the last thing he took was the log for their fire!
Then he went up the chimney, himself, the old liar.
On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire.
And the one speck of food that he left in the house,
Was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse.
Then He did the same thing to the others' houses,
Mickey's, Yogi's, Xi Yang Yang's, Phineas', Papa Smurf's, Old Master Q's, Yui's, Honoka's Shakes', Scooby's, Jerry's and the others homes had been done without any notice,
With their houses having specks of dust much too small for the other mice and cockroaches!
It was quarter past dawn... All the toons, still a-bed,
All the toons, still laid a-snooze. When he packed up his sled,
Packed it up with their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings!
The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit,
He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!