Santa's Reindeer Hay

It come about principally by two very young boys asking their mother if I were Santa Clause, my driving by them on a tractor towing three wagon loads hay, and what was I doing. "Making hay." was likely her remark not to dash their imaginations. Before and followed many hunkered down conversations with a many little people with such opening lines such as, "I know who you are!" or "Look Mommy, Santa Clause." These encounters more than I can number: grocery drug stores, physician offices, department stores. Stooped in conversation, I spoke of, "You mind your Mother?" or "You don't play near the road." and "You brush your teeth before you go to bed." And, standing I let myself a wink in for their pretty mothers direction.