Holiday Tales from the 2012 “Merry Christmas Poems and Tales”
By
Gypsy Joy.
Old Father Time’s favorite hide-out was not a real secret for the
Happy New Year Fairy
who on New Year’s Eve fell in a half filled champagne glass. The problem was that she could not remember Old Father Time’s favorite hide-out. When a fairy gets doused by champagne she will forget temporarily all the secrets she knows. Thus when she was asked about the whereabouts of Old Father Time so the
New Year’s Baby
could take over the New Year when the clock struck twelve on New Year’s Eve, the Happy New Year Fairy was unable to help Old Father Time’s entourage to find him.
What were the New Year commissioners to do?
Frantically they looked here and there and everywhere in between and nowhere did they see a glimpse of Old Father Time.
They asked the help of every magician they knew and every snowman they met. Even a leprechaun who was on vacation from Ireland and who was kind enough to offer his gold as a reward to the person who knew the whereabouts of Old Father Time.
When the commissioners met a sweet angel dressed in blue, they begged her to fly around everywhere in the land and to look in every nook. Angels often know better where someone may be hiding than anyone else in the whole wide world.
The clocks were busily ticking away, as clocks everywhere always do every minute of each day and night, in every country in the world. There was little time left before the clocks would strike the magic hour of midnight. Fireworks, TV channels, church bells and boat sirens would soon announce through the land that the New Year’s Baby had arrived. Just when the clocks were going to strike the twelfth hour, and everyone seemed terrible upset, a whirlwind struck the land and before the feet of the Happy New Year Fairy appeared
One, Two, Three, Four,
Five Elves!
carrying a Grandfather’s clock and out of it jumped Old Father Time with Baby New Year crawling behind him. Baby New Year was a handsome darling, showing off his broad smile at the waiving crowd.
All who had been searching for Old Father Time were speechless.
While Old Father Time hurried away he called out:
“My time is up good people of this land?
Welcome Baby New Year please!”
While the people clapped, Old Father Time vanished merrily from their sight.
His task was done!
