Hurry Up!

This story I do not recall first hand. It was one of several stories Mom and Dad told often.

It appears that one Christmas Eve in the late 1930's a young boy was reluctant to go to bed. At that time there was living in the household a Mother, a Father, the young boy, a younger sister and a hired man. The young boy had been told that he had to be in bed before Santa would show up but apparently that was not overcoming his reluctance to get on with it.

All of a sudden there arose such a clatter, the sound of sleigh bells on the porch and the young boy was out of his tub and into bed as quick as a wink. He was still wet but he was in bed!

The hired man had snuck out of the house, gone to the barn, got a set of bells from the horse's harness and rung it right outside the window.

I do not know that the effect was long lasting.