Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the claim,

Nothing was stirring, not even a flame;

The Dredges were docked by the river with care,
In hopes that the Pirate soon would be there;


The cronies were resting after eating their supper,
From campfire tales and hilarious banter;
Dreaming of gold and feeling quite quirky,

We settled down for the night with chunky the turkey.


When out on the creek there arose such a scare,
We woke from our sleep to see who was there,
Away to the bank we ran in a daze,   
To see the commotion that caused such a craze,


The moon on the water reflected a vision,

Could it be our wish, had come to fruition?


With wondrous amazement our interest was peaked,  

Appeared Sherpa Shad towing a dredge down the creek.  
With a rider, so jolly and causing a riot,
I knew in an instant, it must be the Pirate!


Quick as a whip the dredge sputtered and flamed,
And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d us by name:

“Hey! Timmy, Kathleen, and Swiftwater Toney!

“Hey Cooley and Shad and all of the cronies!
“To the bottom of bedrock, to the layer of clay,
“Now dredge away all, dredge away, dredge away!”

So on down the creek the Pirate withdrew,
With a sluice full of cons and gold pickers too,
And then in a twinkling, I spied in my sluice
The glistening of gold as big as a moose?


As I did my gold dance, and was spinning around,
The Pirate let out a magnificent sound,

dress’d in his wetsuit, from his head to his toe,
He laughed and he bellowed, now I must go!


Buckets of cons were tossed in the air,
And he danced on his dredge with a Pirate’s flare;
His eyes - how they twinkled! his movements quite merry,

His cheeks were like roses, and his beard was all hairy;


The dredge hose was coiled up like a bow,

As he leapt on the dredge and told Sherpa to go

The current picked up and swept them away,

Gotta get back to Indy before Christmas Day!

The magic took over with a mystical flame,

As a blanket of snow fell over the claim

A voice  was all booming as they drove out of sight,

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

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