How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Page #2

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and he thought it up quick.

Why, my sweet little tot...

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 child.

Then he patted her head.

And he got her a drink,

and he sent her to bed.

And when Cindy-Lou Who

was in bed with her cup...

...he crupt to the chimney

and stuffed the tree up.

Then he went up the chimney himself,

the old liar.

And the last thing he took

was the log for their fire.

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 other Whos' houses...

...leaving crumbs much too small

for the other Whos' mouses.

It was a quarter of dawn,

all the Whos still abed...

...all the Whos still a-snooze...

...when he packed up his sled.

Packed it up with their presents,

their ribbons, their wrappings...

...their snoof and their fuzzels,

their tringlers and trappings.

[SCREAMS]

Ten thousand feet up,

up the side of Mount Crumpit...

...he rode with his load to the tiptop

to dump it.

Pooh-pooh to the Whos.

NARRATOR:

He was Grinch-ily humming.

They're finding out now

that no Christmas is coming.

They're just waking up.

I know just what they'll do.

Their mouths will hang open

a minute or two.

Then the Whos down in Who-ville

will all cry boohoo.

- That's a noise...

- Grinned the Grinch.

...that I simply must hear.

He paused.

And the Grinch put a hand to his ear.

And he did hear a sound

rising over the snow.

It started in low...

...then it started to grow.

[WHOS HUMMING]

[WHOS SINGING

"WELCOME CHRISTMAS"]

But this sound wasn't sad.

Why, this sound sounded glad.

Every Who down in Who-ville,

the tall and the small...

...was singing without any presents at all.

He hadn't stopped Christmas from coming,

it came.

Somehow or other, it came just the same.

And the Grinch,

with his Grinch feet ice-cold in the snow...

...stood puzzling and puzzling.

How could it be so?

It came without ribbons.

It came without tags.

It came without packages, boxes or bags.

He puzzled and puzzed

till his puzzler was sore.

Then the Grinch thought of something

he hadn't before.

"Maybe Christmas," he thought,

"doesn't come from a store.

Maybe Christmas, perhaps,

means a little bit more."

And what happened then?

Well, in Who-ville they say...

...that the Grinch's small heart

grew three sizes that day.

And then the true meaning of Christmas

came through.

And the Grinch found the strength

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