 Well, this is Tim, and I'm telling you about Jump Jump and I and the other folks from Holiday House when we saved Christmas. Last, we were inside the Ice Queen's Palace, where Santa's reindeer were being held prisoners. The Ice Queen didn't know that we were in the lower tunnel of her palace trying to find the dungeons, and we hoped she wouldn't find out that we had tricked her into lifting the curtain of blue fire until we had set the reindeer free. Every moment was like an hour as we trekked along the tunnels trying to find the right one. Well, I'll be back in a minute to tell you just what happened next. Oh, be careful, Archie Pockley. Don't bump your head on that beam. All right, Mary Holiday. I'll be careful. And don't let sleepy-sleeping the poet get too far behind us, or we'll lose them. Run, run! I don't know, Jump Jump. Soon we'll find them, I hope. Would you like me to take Jump Jump and put him inside my fur cap, Mary Holiday? He might get bumped there in your pocket. This tunnel is so narrow. All right, Tim. You are short enough so there's no danger of you bumping your head. Here, Jump Jump. Let me lift you out of my pocket. Now, Tim, where's your cap? Right here, Mary Holiday. There's lots of room for Jump Jump in there. He'll be as snug as a bug in a rug in your cap, Tim, and safe, too, in case that wild old Ice Queen chases us. Oh, what a terrible thought, Archie Pockley. We're hoping she doesn't even suspect that we are inside the palace. I'll put my cap back on my head now. Are you comfy, Jump Jump, in there? Oh, dear. Here's another turning in the tunnel, and two other tunnels leading into this one. Which way shall we go? We ought to have a map or something. Shouldn't the dungeons be underneath the palace, Mary Holiday? This tunnel leads downwards. Yes. All right, let's take that one then, Tim. Come along, poet and sleepy-slim, let's hurry. It's taking us down all right. Oh, it's deeper than that hill at Holiday House. I hope we're in the right tunnel now. Oh, we have to hurry before the Ice Queen discovers that those are just dolls out in front of the palace gates, and not us. The tunnel turns here. Let's hope it's leading us to the reindeer. Wait! Oh, listen! Listen! Yes. I wonder what it is. Well, of course the reindeers will be guarded. The Ice Queen wouldn't leave such important prisoners without protection. Why didn't we think of that? Well, I did think of it, Mary Holiday. Only I was hoping it wouldn't be so. What do we know now, Mary Holiday? I don't know, Tim. Wait here, all of you. I'm going to quietly slip along the tunnel to see how many guards there are. I'll be right back. No, no, no. That's too dangerous for you, Mary Holiday. They might see you. Let me go. I'm smaller than either of you. Let me go. Oh, Jump Jump's talking elf talk in your hat, Tim. Lift your cap and see what he's saying. All right. I'll lift my cap so you can talk Jump Jump, but say it slowly. I said, let me go and look, Mary Holiday. No, Jump Jump, you might be seen. Please, let me go. They won't see me. He's right, Mary Holiday. He wouldn't be noticed since he's only three inches tall. I'll eat around the corner and jump around last. Oh, it's too risky, Jump Jump. I can't have anything happen to you. Let him go, Mary Holiday. He won't be seen. Oh, very well. But just one little peek, Jump Jump. And then jump right back and tell us what you've seen. Come on, Jump Jump. Jump on now. There he goes, jumping on tiptoe like you said, Mary Holiday. Tell me the tunnel toward those voices. I wonder how many guards there are. It sounds like maybe five or six people talking in there. Yes? Sounds funny, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Oh, now Jump Jump so far away, I can hardly see him. Oh, I wish I hadn't let him go. Look, Jump Jump's disappeared. He went right around the corner of the tunnel. Oh, they must have seen him. Come on, come on, Tim. Let's run after him. Yes, I'll come too. Oh, my. This is terrible. Oh, yeah. Here we are at the turn. Oh, I hope Jump Jump isn't in trouble. I hope so too, Tim. Well, look at that. Jump and jeeps. The tunnel is widening into a big room. I can't believe it. Why, there aren't any guards here at all. Jump Jump. Jump Jump, where are you? Oh, look, very holiday. Do you see what I see? Yes, there are the reindeer archipod leaders standing in a stall against the wall. Oh, we found them at last. Where's Jump Jump? I'm up here on Blitzen's ear. Well, you gave me quite a scare for a minute. I didn't know what had happened to you, Jump Jump. How'd you get way up there on Blitzen's ear? Oh, yeah. Are these really Santa's reindeer archipod group? The very same, Tim. The very same. If I had time, I'd introduce you properly. This is Vixen, and over here is Dasher. Hello, Dasher. How are you? Are those feed bags around their necks, Mary? How are they? Yes, they are, Tim. That was a strange mumbling, chewy noise we heard from a distance, and we thought it might be some guards talking. Yes, well, I'm glad it just turned out to be our dear little friends. The flying feet sat us jolly little prancers eating their lunch. I am so glad that we found the reindeer. But come, Jump Jump, there's not a moment to lose playing with Blitzen now. Let me pick you up and pop you into my pocket again. Like that, because from now on you had better stay in a very safe spot, Jump Jump. Believe me. Very holiday is right. We aren't out of the palace yet, and we are... until we are, we're still in danger. I won't do some of the ropes. The reindeer are tied to the starwood, Archie Pogli. That's good, Tim. Oh, poet, poet, will you come and help me? I have to undo the harness of the reindeer. These jingly bells might give us away. We'd better take them off and we'd better leave right here. I think that's a very wise move, Archie Pogli, the clown. The quieter we are when we leave the palace, the better it will be. I just hope that the ice queen doesn't discover she's been tricked and start looking for us. All the ropes are untied now, Archie Pogli. That's good, Tim. The poet and I have all of the harness off now. I'll lead Blitzen and the other reindeer will follow him right along. Tim and I had better walk alongside the reindeer, don't you think, Archie Pogli? And we'll let poet and sleepy slim bring up the rear of our little procession. All right, merry holiday. I'll lead Blitzen out of this stall right now. Come on, Blitzy Boy. Oh, yes. That's right, Blitzen. Oh, Santa Claus will feed you all you can eat just as soon as you are safely home again. Jump, jump safe in your pocket, isn't he, merry holiday? Yes, Tim. He's all right. And he's going to stay quiet like a good little elf for once. He's promised. Well, everything's ready. I think we'd better start up the tunnel. We started to climb up the tunnel and to try and find our way out of the ice queen's palace. My heart was going bump, bump, bump. I was so anxious that no one would see us or hear us. Up and up we went trying to remember the right turns and the dozens of tunnels that crisscrossed underneath the ice queen's palace. Don't toss your head so, Blitzy, oh boy. You'll be on your way home to Santa Claus before you can twitch your tail twice and say, Christmas tree. I do hope we're taking the right turning. It's so hard to remember when there's so many passages leading off in all directions. Oh, I can hardly believe it's true. I think I'm walking along beside one of Santa's reigns here. Say, don't we turn left here, merry holiday? I simply can't remember, Tim. Let's try the left turn anyway. We seem to be going upwards, merry holiday. Well, that's all right, Archie Pogli. We went downwards toward the tunnel, remember? Yes, so we did, yes. As a famous man once said, so we did. Say, isn't that a door up ahead of us? Yes, yes it is. Oh, let's hope it's the one opening outside. Oh, hurry along, Blitzy. Hurry along, can't you go faster than that? Go tip-hoof, can you tip-hoof? You Pogli said tip-hoof, merry holiday. Say, what am I mapping about? We haven't got a danger yet, are we? Oh, that's right, Tim. We can't relax a moment until the reindeer are flying on their way back to Santa Claus. So how can the reindeer fly without wings, merry holiday? Oh, they have flying feet, Tim. In fact, once they're in the air, they go faster than anything in the world can go. Nothing can catch them. So, you see, if we can just set them free, then we've won. The ice cream could never catch them. Here, here we are at the door, merry holiday. Oh, that's splendid, Archie Pogli. Oh, I hope it hasn't been locked. Yes. Let me out. I want to see, merry holiday. I'm sorry, jump-jump, but you've just got to stay in my pocket until we're sure that everything's all right. Now, Archie Pogli, see if you can open the door. Yes. Oh, here goes. And here's open. One, two, three, the latch turns. It's opening all right. Oh, yep, here it goes. It couldn't sound as squeaky the first time we came through it. Well, what's a few squeaks between doors? Archie, you flip, blitzy. Oh, Archie Pogli, wait. We've made a terrible mistake. What's the matter, merry holiday? Why are you looking so frightened? Look through the door, Tim. It's not the same door at all. It's not the door leading out of the palace. Oh, merry holiday. I'll say it isn't the same door. Oh, we've come the wrong way after all. Oh, we have. Oh, dear, oh, dear me. Oh, watch this place. Archie Pogli, we've come right up through the palace of the Ice Queen's Tower Room. Yes, the Ice Queen's Tower Room, merry holiday. Yes, this is where she keeps the magic mirror, I guess. Where she watches everything that's happening outside of the palace. Yes. Oh, now we have to hurry and turn around and go all the way back. Oh, how fortunate that the Ice Queen isn't in her tower room right now or all would have been lost. Hurry, blitzy. Hurry, let's turn around. Hurry. Come on. Hurry, blitzy. Oh, listen, listen. Oh, someone's coming. We can't go back now. Someone's coming along the tunnel. We're trapped. Come on, everyone. Quick, into the tower room. Oh, we'll have to hide behind this screen. Come on, hurry. Hurry. Oh, it's our only chance. Well, as fast as we possibly could, we let all the reindeer into the big round tower room and behind the silver screen, it was so big it half filled the room, we hoped that whoever was coming wouldn't find us. The footsteps came closer and closer and closer. Can you guess who it was? Well, if you meet me here again tomorrow, I'll tell you what happened next to Jump Jump, Mary Holiday and the rest of it. Goodbye for now.