CHAPTER 12

What Boomer Did

The sleigh had crashed.

Santa Claus floundered in the snow.

The reindeer sprawled on the runway.

Boxes of presents were scattered everywhere.

Olive galloped to the overturned sleigh. Boomer stood near it.

"Oh, no! This is awful! A disaster!" Olive cried. "What happened, Boomer?"

Boomer grinned. "I overloaded the sleigh when nobody was looking.
I put a set of barbells across the back of the runners."

"What! But why?"

"You want to go with them, don't you?"

"Shh! Of course I want to go, but ---"

"Well, if the team can't get airborne then you're in. You're in!"

"But --- but ---"

"Oh-oh!" Boomer clasped his mouth. "Look who's coming."