It's a little on the late side, but...
In the city of Notre Dame, there is a story that mothers tell their children, as their mothers told them when they were young. The story is about the
cathedral, and tells of the hunchback who lives there - a twisted, misshapen wretch of tremendous strength and tremendous ugliness. The belltower is the
highest point in Notre Dame, and it has the best view - and the hunchback has tremendously keen eyes, and is always watching. He never sleeps. Instead, when
all the good folk of the town are in their beds, he creeps through the alleyways and listens, and peers through windows. He has been creeping for hundreds of
years, and is silent as the night itself. He creeps, and he listens, and he writes down names on little lists (for he knows by heart all of the people of
Notre Dame, having memorized the church records, and watched them for so long) and then once a year, in wintertime, he clambers down with enormous bags,
weighed down far heavier than any normal man could bear, filled with gifts and toys for all of the good little boys and girls.
It is the story of Santa Quas.
In the city of Notre Dame, there is a story that mothers tell their children, as their mothers told them when they were young. The story is about the
cathedral, and tells of the hunchback who lives there - a twisted, misshapen wretch of tremendous strength and tremendous ugliness. The belltower is the
highest point in Notre Dame, and it has the best view - and the hunchback has tremendously keen eyes, and is always watching. He never sleeps. Instead, when
all the good folk of the town are in their beds, he creeps through the alleyways and listens, and peers through windows. He has been creeping for hundreds of
years, and is silent as the night itself. He creeps, and he listens, and he writes down names on little lists (for he knows by heart all of the people of
Notre Dame, having memorized the church records, and watched them for so long) and then once a year, in wintertime, he clambers down with enormous bags,
weighed down far heavier than any normal man could bear, filled with gifts and toys for all of the good little boys and girls.
It is the story of Santa Quas.