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E very 1ivho
Do\vn in llVho-ville
Liked Christmas a lot ...
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But the Grinch,

Who lived just north of JJ7ho-ville,
Did NOT!

The Grinch hated Christrnas1 The "'hole Christmas season!

Now, please don't ask why. No one qui te knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart "'as two sizes too small.
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"And they're hanging their stockings!" he snarled with a sneer.

"Tomorrow is Chrisrn1as1 It's practically here1"
Then he growled, wirh his Grinch fingers nervously dru1nming,
"I 11UST find some way to stop Christmas from coming!"

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Tomorro\v, he knew ...

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Whatever the reason,
His heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the JVhos,
Staring down from his cave wirh a sour, Grinchy frown
At the warm lighted \Vindows below in their town.
For he knew every IJVho down in Who-ville beneath
Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.

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. . . All the IJVho girls and boys

Would \vake bright and early. They'd rush for their toys'
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
That's tme thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE' NOISE! NOISE! Ji//._
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Then the IVhos, young and old, would sit down to a feast.
And they'd feast! And they'd feast!
And they'd FEAST!
FEAST!
FEAST!
FEAST!
They would feast on JVho-pudding, and rare Who-roast-beast
Which \vas something the Grinch couldn't stand in the least!
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They'd do something
He liked least of all!
Every 117ho down in JJ7ho-ville, the tall and the small,
Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing.
They'd stand hand-in-hand. And the l17hos would start singing!
They'd sing! And they'd sing!
AND they'd SING! SING! SING! SING1
And the more the Grinch thought of this JJ7ho-Christmas-Sing,
The more the Grinch thought, "I must stop this whole thing!
"Why, for fifty-three years I've put up with it now 1
"I MUST stop this Christmas from coming!
... But HOW?"
Then he got an idea!
An awf11l idea!
THE GRINCH
GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
 "All I need is a reindeer ... "
The Grinch looked around.
But, since reindeer are scarce, there \Vas none to be found.
Did that stop the old Grinch ... ?
No1 The G rinch si n1ply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer, I'll ·make one instead!"
So he called his dog, i\ifax. Then he took some red thread
And he tied a big horn on the top of his head.

"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 chis hat, I look just like Saint Nick'"

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Then rhe Grinch said, "Giddap!"

And rhe sleigh srarted down
Toward rhe homes \vhere the 1Phos
-- Lay a-snooze in their town.

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THEN
He loaded some bags
And some old em pry sacks
On a ramshackle sleigh
And he hirched up old Max.
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All their windo,vs \Vere dark. Quiet sno'v filled the air.
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All the IJVhos were all dreaming sweet dreams without care
When he came to the first little house on rhe square.
"This is stop number one," the old Grinchy Claus hissed
And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
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Then he s 1 Id the Gnnc ·
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But, if Santa coul , ment or two.
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He got stuck on y , f h fireplace Aue
k h·s head out o t e
Then he stuc l . ll hung in a ro'v.
. · h -rock1ngs a . ,..
Where the little IV o s . d " e the first things to go.
"These stockings,
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Then he slithered and slunk, \Vith a sn1ile most unpleasant,

Around the \vhole room, and he took every present'
Pop guns1 And bicycles' Roller skates' Dru1ns1
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed then1 in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chi1nbley'
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Th,n h, ''""k to th' i«box. '" rook th< IP/,.; f''"'
ffr took "'' IPJ,,.P"dding! I;, took th,
He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash.
Why, th" Gtin1h - took thcit 1.,, "" of IPJ,,.h.,h!
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Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney \Vith glee.

"And N0\'\11" grinned the G rinch, " I \viii stuff up the tree!"
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And the Grinch grabbed the tree, and he started co shove The Grinch had been caught by this tiny llVho daughter
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove. W ho'd got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small llVho! She stared at the Grinch and said, "Santy Claus, \vby,
Little Cindy-Lou llVho, who was not more than nvo. "llVhy are you caking our Christmas treeJ W HY?"
 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 11Vho 'vent to bed \vith her cup,
HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!

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But, you know, that old Grinch ·was so smart and so slick
H e thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet little tot," the fake Santy Claus lied,
"There's a light on this tree that \von't light on one side.
"So I'm taking it home to my 'vorkshop, my dear.
"I'll fix it up there. Then I'll bring it back here."
Then the last thing he took
Was the log for their fire! And the one speck of food
Then he went up the chimney, hirnself, the old liar. That he left in the house
On their walls he left nothing but hooks and son1e wire. Was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse.
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He did che same ching
To che other IVhos' houses
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l\1uch too small '
For the ot her Whos' mouses.
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It \Vas quarter past dawn .. .

All the JJVhos, still a-bed,
All the IP-hos, still a-snooze
When he packed up his sled,
Packed it up \Vith their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings!
The rags! And the tinsel! The tri mmings' The trappings'
Three rhousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit,
He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!
"Pooh-Pooh to the 117hos!" he \vas grinch-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!
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"T heir mouths wi ll hang open a nlinute or two
"Then the 117hos do\vn in 117ho-ville \Viii all cry BOO-HOO! G
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"That I sirnply MUST hear'"
So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand ro his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the sno'v.
It started in lo'v. T hen ir staned to grow ...

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But the sound \vasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded r11trr)•!
It co11ld111t be so!
But it WAS merry! VERY!

He stared down at 117ho-ville!

The Grinch popped his eyes!
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Stood puzzling and puzzling: "I-lo\v could it be so?
"It came without ribbons! It came without rags!
" It came without packages, boxes or bags!"
1 And he puzzled three hours, 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!"
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And what happened tht11 ... ?
Well ... in IJYho-ville rhey say
That the Grinch's small hearr
Grew three sizes that day!
And the minute his heart didn't feel quite so tight,
He whiz.zed \vith his load through the bright morning light
And he brought back the toys' And the food for the feast!
And he ...

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The Grinch rar1•t d the T(}(lft beast!