<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It's that time of year again... here is number 32 in a seemingly endless series:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">St. Entropy Boxes with Boxes</span><span style="font-size:14pt"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">‘Twas the night before Christmas, and, all through the
collections, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Were boxes and boxes of unprocessed accessions. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Nothing was hung by the chimney with care. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">There was no space—just more boxes there. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">When the pandemic hit, and life faded to gloam, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">We locked the front door and sent the staff home. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But no one remembered, as odd as it sounds, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">That the post office couriers would continue their rounds. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Sure enough, they pressed on through snow, rain, heat, and gloom, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Plague, fire, and all other perils that loom. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">As promised, delivery was swift and complete, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And boxes arrived every day at our feet. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The result was a backlog that just kept progressing </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Of hundreds of objects, all awaiting processing. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">One crate from E. Schrödinger was left on our mat:  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Did it move? Did we have, did we not have a cat? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">There were boxes with labels in old faded writing, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And boxes which looked very much uninviting. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">There were boxes that clinked, there were boxes that oozed. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">There were none with directions, and I was confused. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I sat down at my desk and took out my flask </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(Then realized that I couldn’t drink through my mask). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Away to the window I flew—okay, walked—like a flash, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But tripped over a cat (or I didn’t), and crashed. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Was covering even more boxes below. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">It seemed there was no end to the incoming stuff. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Getting rid of it all was going to be tough. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">When, what to my wondering eyes should appear </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But a miniature sleigh and eight vaccinated reindeer? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">With a little old driver so lively and quaint </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I knew in a moment that it must be the Saint. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Faster than budget cuts his coursers they came, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">“Now <i>Tyvek </i>and <i>Dry Gel</i>, now <i>Poly </i>and <i>Ester</i>, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">On <i>Resistal </i>and <i>Neoprene</i>, on <i>T-Tech </i>and <i>Leicester</i>! </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">To the top of the building, get over the boxes! </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Now dash away, dash, just like flying foxes!” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">With his sleigh on the roof, the Saint shouldered his load </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And, very slowly, down the freight elevator he rode. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">He set down his sack, and shook off the snow, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And said “You expected, what? Marie Kondo? </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Then he looked in his sack, looked again, grabbed his hat, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And he pulled out and didn’t pull out that same cat. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">“It’s time to get organized! Look smart, be swift!” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Then he tossed me a bundle of blank deeds-of-gift. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">“I would have brought help, but I’m fresh out of elves, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">So, you fill out the forms while I fill up the shelves!” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">With a wink of his eye and a twist of his head, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I knew there would be much more accessioning ahead. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">(The cat soon lost interest, and, after cleaning
its fur, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Curled up in a box, where it did/did not purr</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">.) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">As you might expect that St. Entropy would, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">He accessioned all of the objects he could, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Every form was filled out, to the last jot and quantum, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(Though I did leave a few small tittles to taunt him). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The shelves were soon filled, the cabinets were crammed. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(The Saint’s long-time motto: “Collection policy be
damned!”) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">With all of the empties, the Saint built a fine fort, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">A place for curators to meet for a snort. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">He spoke not a word, but seemed pleased with the job, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">As for me, my poor head was beginning to throb. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Then, laying his finger inside of his nose, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">He made a rude sound; up the elevator he rose. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">And away they all flew like a heat-seeking missile. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">“We got it all done in exactly one night!” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">As I watched them arise, getting darker and colder, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">I saw and did not see a cat on his shoulder. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(John Simmons and Sally Shelton do and do not have anything to do
with cats, saints, or boxes.) </span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><span></span></span></i></p>





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