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The Christmas Spiders

A long time ago a mother was busily cleaning for Christmas.
The spiders fled upstairs to
the attic to escape the broom.
When the house became quiet
the spiders slowly crept downstairs for a peek.
Oh! what a beautiful tree!
In their excitement they scurried up
the trunk and out along each branch.
They were filled with happiness as they
climbed amongst the glittering beauty.
But alas! By the time they were through climbing,
the tree was completely shrouded
in their dusty gray spider web.
When Santa Claus came with the gifts for the children
and saw the tree covered with spider webs,
he smiled as he saw how happy the spiders were,
but knew how heartbroken the mother would be
if she saw the tree covered with the dusty webs.
So he turned the webs to silver and gold.
The tree sparkled and shimmered and
was even more beautiful than before.
That's why we have tinsel on our tree
and every tree should have
a Christmas spider in its branches.