 This is Tim, and today I'll tell you more about my adventure up at the North Pole with Jump Jump, the little elf who was no-feet-three. We rescued Santa's Ranger and saved Christmas. Well, I tell you things were getting pretty exciting. All the folks from Holiday House, Jump Jump and myself, were having to keep a sharp look out because now that we were so close to the Ice Cream Palace where Santa's Ranger were being kept prisoner, she was trying everything to stop us from succeeding in our mission. This was, of course, to take the Ranger back to Santa and save Christmas for all the boys and girls everywhere. Well, we were only a mile away from the Ice Cream Palace, and every step we took meant danger. So we didn't do much talking, but kept looking all around behind us, too. Well, we didn't know what she might try next. I'll be back in a minute. The Ice Cream Palace yet, Merry Holiday? Be very close to it now. You can ride on my shoulder only if you promise to stay there, Jump Jump. I guess Jump Jump gets a bit tired of staying in your pocket, Merry Holiday. I know he does, Tim, but I'm so afraid that he might start jumping around and get into trouble. It's no time to be laughing, Jump Jump. Oh, hello, there's Libby Slam the lion. I'm ever so glad you're awake. Of course I'm awake. Archie Pugley is going to walk behind us for a while now with the poet, and I'm going to trot along in front of you, Merry Holiday, and guard you. Oh, that's very brave of you, Libby Slam. I wonder what the Ice Cream will try next, Merry Holiday. She sent Ice Force to capture us and open cracks in the ice in front of it. Yes, and she set a whole mess of wild animals to run us down, she did. Animals mean I'd rather be an elf myself. Yes, and even a band of giant ice maids to chase us away from our palace. Only we chased the ice maids away, didn't we, with a little tiny mouse, too. I wonder what will happen next. Yeah, maybe it'll rain. It couldn't rain in such a cold place, but it might snow. We should be within sight of the Ice Cream's palace any minute now. Uh-oh, there she goes again. There's that Ice Cream's laugh. Well, we always heard just before something's going to happen yet. I'm not afraid of that old Ice Queen. Uh, much. Well, that's usually a sign of danger. So let's get together again and see if we can find out what the Ice Cream might do this time. Archie Potley, poor, hurry up. We're going to stay close together now. All right, Tim. No, Archie Potley, import me that much noise at their feet. No. I don't think it is the poor Archie Potley that we hear, Tim. Oh, it ain't me. I'm standing still as I can be. Uh, maybe it's jump-jump, huh? I'm not jumping around. I'm just hoping that whatever it is, we'll be able to have the Christmas fairies help again. Do you see anything, Merry Holiday? No. Not yet, Tim. But we're standing near some snow-covered mounds of ice. Maybe if we climbed up on one of those, we could see better. That's a good idea. Let's do that. All right. You think we should leave the silver trail that the Christmas fairy had made to guide us to the palace? Oh, we won't go very far, Tim. Just up on the snow hill to get a better view of the country around here. All right. Come on, Archie Potley and poor, we're going to climb this hill. Well, the snow is soft on these hills. That's odd. Most of the country here is solid ice. Oh, what a swell snowball fight we could have if we didn't already have a job like rescuing Santa's reindeer. Say, Merry Holiday. Yes, Sleepy Slam. When we do rescue the reindeer, can we ride on them, huh? Oh, Sleepy Slam, how can you talk about that when we're so worried? We don't know what's going to happen next. That's why I sleep so well, Tim, because I worry so much. Oh, here we are at the top of the hill at last. Are you all right, Jump Jump, on my shoulder? Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Good. Hey, you really get a view all right from up here. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Oh, so do I, Jump Jump. Look, everyone. Look, look over there. Oh, the main is in my eyes. I can't see. What is it, Tim? What is it? Jeepers, that can't be real, Mary Holiday. Yes, it's a real all right, Tim. Oh, no wonder we heard all those marching feet. Oh, shucks, do I have to lift my mane out of my eyes to see? Won't anybody tell me what's happening? It's an army, Sleepy Slam, and it's marching toward the hill that we're standing on. The army? Oh, good, we are saved. We're saved. Hooray for the army! Oh, Sleepy Slam, it isn't the sort of an army you think. Then what sort of an army is it, Tim? It's an army of snowmen. Snowmen, Tim? If there's snowmen, then what are there? Oh, Sleepy Slam, not snowmen. Snowmen, see? Yes, I mean no. Oh, I'll have to look for myself, I guess. Oh, you're right, it is an army of men made of snow. Are you worried, Mary Holiday? There's so many snowmen we can't possibly do anything to stop them from coming up here after us. Yes, I'm worried too, Tim. I can't think of a way to escape either. Oh, jump, jump, even if Tim did carve your gun, what good would it do? But it wouldn't even stop one snowman. Besides, jump, jump, I haven't anything to carve a gun out of. I've used up the last bit of whale bone. What are the snowmen doing now? Why are they turning around like that? They seem to be changing their direction. I wonder why. I mean, some of them will stop Mary Holiday, see? Oh, yes, yes, they're marching in a circle all around the bottom of the hill where we're standing. I see. Oh, this is terrible. We'll be captured again, sure. What do you suppose the ice cream will do with us, Mary Holiday? Well, she hasn't captured us yet, Tim. Don't forget, we have someone on our side who is far greater than the ice cream. You mean the Christmas fairy Mary Holiday? Yes, that's right. I think we'll have to call on her again to help us. That's a good idea, Mary Holiday. She's always thought of something to do, hasn't she? Yes. Come on, let's all wish together now. Wish hard. Wish that the Christmas fairy would come and help us. I'm wishing, and I think I hear her voice already. So do I, so do I. I hear that Christmas fairy, too. Yeah, but I don't see her. She must be in trouble because we're so near the ice cream palace. Yes, Christmas fairy. Yes, I hear you. We need your help again. What can we do to escape from the army of snowmen? Yes, I understand now. Yes, we'll do that right away, Christmas fairy. Oh, thank you so much for helping us. She said goodbye to us. Goodbye, Christmas fairy. Goodbye. What did she see, Mary Holiday? The snowmen have started to climb up the hill toward us. Yes, they're all around us, Mary Holiday, and coming closer every second. What are we going to do? Well, the Christmas fairy said for us to make big snowballs, as many as we can, and quickly. Snowballs? Yes. Those snowmen are soldiers. They won't want to play around with us now, Mary Holiday. Let's obey the Christmas fairy's plan instead of arguing. You're right, Mary Holiday. I'm going to start making snowballs right now. Me, too, then. Me, too. All right, then. So will I. Archie Pogli's already started, I see. And the poet, too. He's making snowballs. Oh, jump, jump. You better not try because your snowballs would be too little to be of much help. Those snowmen look very determined, Mary Holiday. They're six-feet snowballs made. Now, what do I do with them? You roll the snowballs down the hill toward the snowman, Tim, as fast as you can, and make some more, and just keep on rolling them down the hill toward the army. Here goes mine right now, rolling down, down. Look, Archie Pogli, important of rolling their balls down the hill, too. Oh, look at those snowballs go. Where they're getting bigger as they roll down the hill. Yes, Tim. That's the idea, you see. By the time the snowballs reach the snowmen, they will be so big that they'll roll right over the army of snowmen. And since they are made of snow, those soldiers will roll right up into the snowballs. It's working just as you see, Mary Holiday. Look, the big balls of snow are tumbling those soldiers' heads. They're a mess, Tim. Yeah. Hello. Oh, my. Yes, Chum Chum. Those the hands have been rolled over by our snowballs. I guess I've forgotten that snowballs are real big when you roll them down the hill. I guess that is of them, and of the snowman army. Oh, look at them go away. Yeah, look at them run. We must have scared them stiff. Stiff. Stiff. That's a joke. Maybe I ought to be a clown, uh? A clown, clown, clown. No, no, I'd rather be an elf myself. Well, laugh, Archie. Pardon me. Laugh. We're safe. Oh, my. The last snowman is going away. He's going toward... toward... Oh. Look. In all the excitement I didn't see it before. Look, everyone. Look, Mary Holiday. That great christening castle made of ice. I can see towers and great windows and doors and... Oh, but it looks blue, Mary Holiday. Why is that? You're looking at the ice cream palace, Tim. And there's that magic ring of blue fire completely around it. Even arching right over the roof of the palace. Laugh. Elf. Elf. Laugh. Yeah? The ice cream palace at last. Tomorrow I'll tell you what happened next. So be sure and listen, won't you? Goodbye for now.