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    A Kidnapped Santa Claus
    A Kidnapped Santa Claus
    A Kidnapped Santa Claus
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    A Kidnapped Santa Claus

    By L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 4, 2008
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    • 3/5
      Cute little bit of fluff. Santa is kidnapped by the Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred...Everything turns out all right, of course - even the presents get delivered properly (more or less). Cute short piece.
    • 4/5
      There was no need for Repentance when the other Daemons had no guests, but if one was their "guest" and didn't wish to stay, the only way out of the caves was through Repentance. He was an important part of the ecosystem. Santa was doing such a good job, that he was putting the others out of theirs, which led to their plan.I found it to be an entertaining story. I also enjoyed the quote about bad news. Just think what our news cycles would be like if that was the case. ?

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    A Kidnapped Santa Claus - L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Kidnapped Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum

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    Title: A Kidnapped Santa Claus

    Author: L. Frank Baum

    Posting Date: July 30, 2008 [EBook #519] Release Date: May, 1996

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A KIDNAPPED SANTA CLAUS ***

    Produced by Dennis Amundson

    A Kidnapped Santa Claus

    by

    L. Frank Baum

    Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another.

    It is called the Laughing Valley because everything there is happy and gay. The brook chuckles to itself as it leaps rollicking between its green banks; the wind whistles merrily in the trees; the sunbeams dance lightly over the soft grass, and the violets and wild flowers look smilingly up from their green nests. To laugh one needs to be happy; to be happy one needs to be content. And throughout the Laughing Valley of Santa Claus contentment reigns supreme.

    On one side is the mighty Forest of Burzee. At the other side stands the huge mountain that contains the Caves of the Daemons. And between them the Valley lies smiling and peaceful.

    One would thing that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go.

    But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy.

    The Caves of

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