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THE OTHER FATHER CHRISTMAS
“BOXINN”
Written by Author Joseph and Illustrated by Ivy Obian
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Humans living on earth still believe that there are some planets out there waiting to
be discovered. Well, here is a story about one planet known as The Christmas, the
name sounds very familiar but the things that occur there are quite amazing.
The Christmas was a planet covered with snow, her streets littered with all sorts of
gifts and trees glowing with colorful fireballs; this planet unlike many others didn‟t
need light from the sun, the tress on planet Christmas looked like fruits that
twinkled with different bright colors such as blue, red, orange, pink, yellow, green
and mixtures of many others.
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A stranger from earth would think they were glowing balls of oranges, apples,
pineapples, pears and mangos because of the dazzling color they illuminated.
The gifts on planet Christmas were occasionally arranged by creatures called the
Snowlings, these were little creatures that always had cheerful smiles on their faces,
four bulging eyes lined up vertically on their forehead, these eyes darted to and fro
whenever they arranged gifts which would be sent to various worlds, their father,
the Father Christmas, wouldn‟t be happy if they lost any present. It would be unfair
for children living on various planets not to receive the gifts named on their list.
These cheerful creatures were one foot tall with skin as white as snow and as thick
as the bark of a tree; perhaps this was to prevent cold from getting to them since
the Christmas was always covered with snow and ice; this was because the sun was
millions of miles away from it.
The wonderful thing about these Snowlings was that they worked as a team,
sometimes singing, dancing and had never quarreled with each other despite the
fact that their favorite game was throwing ice balls at themselves, and the one with
the highest point would be celebrated before they went to sleep. They always
flashed a wonderful smiles, revealing those set of teeth made for chewing carrots,
like those of a earthly rabbits, they loved carrots because it couldn‟t be cult ivated
on planet Christmas, Father Christmas usually returned with plenty carrots each
time he visited planet Earth.
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They sang melodious songs with the voices of infants as they threw more and more
gifts into the bag that never seemed to fill up.
„Jingle Bell Jingle Bell
Jingle All the Day
Oh what fun it is to give
To Children who Live
On Various Planets Oh
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh‟
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Snowlings sometimes sang for Father Christmas whenever he returned from his trip
to different planets. Their version of the Jingle bell was his favorite.
Father Christmas had two siblings Boxinn and Eve. Unlike Father Christmas who was
very old with white hair, slight bald head, always clad in red attire with a chariot of
antelopes, Boxinn loved to wear blue garments, his hair yellow and curly like the
wool from a sheep‟s skin, which were so long they reached his swollen stomach. As
for his small button-like eyes, they were blue, his lips wide and thin. Boxxin had the
habit of quarrelling with the Snowlings because they always disturbed his long rests
with their music.
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Eve was the solitary kind who had many similar white gowns; despite their multiple
eyes, the Snowlings could hardly notice when she changed her white gowns, she was
very beautiful, her eyes were wine red, which glittered like rubies and enabling her
see clearly in the dark, her hair was almost whiter than snow. She loved to play on
the snow fields and the cold had no effect on her skin unlike Boxinn who always
ensured that his feet and hands were properly covered.
Boxinn was never happy because he had not traveled to the most beautiful planet in
the universe: the planet Earth. He had always pleaded to accompany Father
Christmas on his long trip to planet Earth but Father Christmas would not let him but
rather sent Boxinn to Pluto, the farthest planet from sun, Boxinn wasn‟t friendly to
Plutonian children because they had long and sharp ears which could hear sounds
coming from long distances, their eyes were very large like those of people wearing
round dark glasses. He had seen pictures of people from an unknown planet wearing
dark glasses in one of Father Christmas‟s return bag. The next planet to Pluto was
Neptune and the children from this terrible region were always cold they usually
requested for blankets and fire lamps, yet many would request for battery powered
lamps so they could play with lights.
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Boxinn was meant to go to the planet Uranus but he was tired of visiting cold planets
and playing with children who made silly cries and nagged every now and then for
blankets and torches, they would complain that the batteries of the lamps which had
been brought the previous year had completely discharged. He was tired, he had
seen pictures of the children and places in planet called Earth, they were the most
beautiful things he‟d ever seen. Father Christmas said there were times that rain
would fall, at times it would snow, while some occasions the sun would bake the
terrains of the earth. Boxinn had never heard of a more complete planet.
Boxinn‟s heart desire was to visit planet earth at all cost, he was even planning to
take his goat alone with him, a pet which Father Christmas had brought to him all
the way from earth when she was still a kid, now she had grown and adapted to the
cold temperature of Christmas land, the only difference between other goats and
she that she had lost almost all the hair on her body and she loved to eat from the
branches of the short tress that produced glowing fruits. She was Christmas goat.
Boxinn knew Father Christmas would be resting from a trip to Mars. The Snowlings
were busy going through the wish-list sent from the children of planet earth, for
they needed to get everything ready before Father Christmas woke from his sleep.
Meanwhile, Boxinn was searching for his sister, Christmas Eve, he knew she would be
somewhere decorating trees with some of the gifts that Father Christmas brought
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home. Apart from singing, relaxing or playing in the snow, that was what she loved
to do. Decoration was simply her hobby. Boxinn found Christmas Eve singing besides
a tree she was beautifying and he knew that she was too busy to notice him when he
would saddle Christmas goat and start off a ride to the planet Earth.
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Now he knew his sister wouldn‟t be a distraction, he would find the map of planet
Earth which father Christmas had hidden for many centuries, Boxinn believed that
the map ought to be around somewhere since Father Christmas intended visiting
planet Earth any moment before Father Christmas woke up. He had to hurry or else
he would lose his opportunity.
He couldn‟t believe his eyes when he saw the map besides Father Christmas‟s pillow,
perhaps he must have been gazing at it before he dozed off. Boxinn stooped,
thinking of how he would steal the map without waking the old man, he mastered
enough courage and stepped forward then took it away from the slumbering. It was
very easy. This was the luckiest time of his entire life.
It was time to get the gifts ready for those wonderful Earthly children. He saw a busy
Snowling then snatched the wish list away from it and ordered the others to quickly
pack the gifts into another small bag that could also contain more than a million
gifts. They refused because they knew he was not meant to go to earth and to make
this worse, Boxinn had never been nice to them.
Knowing they would cause trouble or worse wake Father Christmas if he stayed any
longer, Boxinn quickly saddled on the only creature that obeyed him, his dear
Christmas goat, and they began the journey to planet earth.
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Few hours later, with the help of a shooting star which the goat had they reached
the planet Earth. He wasn‟t tired because he had traveled farther distances than
planet earth. He got excited when he caught a glimpse of the lovely world, planet
earth. He just couldn‟t wait to descend upon the atmosphere. He watched planet
earth gently rotate as hours drifted and days rolled past. Christmas goat declined
itself from the shooting star and started towards the atmosphere.
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The goat had been sweating heavily because she wasn‟t used to the heat that
emitted from the sun. Boxinn soon began to feel warm, but quickly forgot about the
heat as he beheld the beauty and splendor of the oceans, the vegetation, the hills,
forest and landscape.
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The trees were beautiful although they did not produce light like those on planet
Christmas. He had the list but he didn‟t have any gift. He pinched himself for
forgetting the gifts and he knew Father Christmas couldn‟t come to earth because he
didn‟t have the map. What was he going to tell those children when they saw him?
He knew that this visit to planet earth was out of selfish interest and not because he
wanted to distribute gifts. He hadn‟t gotten to where there were humans, yet he
was so excited. He didn‟t understand why he and Christmas goat were sweating so
much, his hands were shaking too. He thought that that was how people felt when
they were happy on earth.
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They landed on vast green vegetation but Christmas goat was still sweating. This was
serious, imagine a goat without fur. Anyway Boxinn wasn‟t bothered, he moved to a
shade beneath a large tree so they could rest.
Little did Boxinn and his perspiring Christmas goat know that they were resting at
the site the villagers were planning to have a bonfire. It was evening on earth unlike
the Christmas planet where it was difficult to differentiate day and night.
That evening, Christmas goat was the first to wake, Boxinn‟s loud snore must have
attracted the villagers there.
A crowd had gathered watching Boxinn as he snored. They were all surprised at his
appearance his appearance. Did Father Christmas crash-land here? They didn‟t want
to believe that the popular Father Christmas was a rough rider. Why is he wearing a
blue robe? Maybe he sacked his tailor and got another. Why does he have yellow
beard? They wondered. That question was hard to figure out. Never had they seen
such a mockery of Father Christmas.
Someone said, “I guess Father Christmas is having a bad day. What a robe and a
hairdo?”
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“It doesn‟t seem like Father Christmas had a nice ride and why is that goat sweating
like that?” A chubby man who was in the midst of the crowd shouted out loud so he
would wake Boxinn.
It worked.
Boxinn, still feeling a bit drowsy from the long journey looking at the crowd said
“Merry Christmas!”
A young girl licking ice-cream tried not to laugh so she asked, “Are you a clown?”
Boxinn being surprised asked, “What is a clown?”
The chubby cut in before the little girl could speak again, “a clown looks just like
you so please stop pretending we know you are a clown and we admire the kind of
show you are putting up here, there are not that many talented clowns anymore.”
Boxinn said, “I am sorry if you have mistaken me for something or someone else, I
am Boxinn,” he stood from his resting position and continued, “I am the younger
brother of Father Christmas, I believe you know who he is?”
The chubby man continued, “Sure we do, you mean the one you are pretending to
be?”
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The little girl had finished her ice cream, she said, “Since you‟re Father Christmas‟
brother, I sent him a wish list, did you come with my gift?
Boxinn was embarrassed. He didn‟t come with any gift, no one could believe he was
from planet Christmas. He was simply dumb founded. “I can show you the map I
used in locating planet earth.” He said, stammering.
“I still don‟t understand why this goat is sweating so heavily.” The chubby man said,
already tired of the joke he felt Boxinn was playing.
By then it was already getting late and they hadn‟t even prepared for the bonfire.
They felt the clown had been given enough attention. They started leaving
gradually.
Boxinn was disappointed when he searched for the map and realized that his beloved
Christmas goat had eaten it up and left pieces that couldn‟t be. How was he going to
return to planet Christmas? If had known he would have followed the stars when he
was coming. He would think about that later.
Boxinn screamed at them, “Wait!”
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Some had gone while others including the chubby man and the little girl turned to
pay attention to him for the last time hoping he was going to say something more
sensible this time around.
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“I am sorry I did not come with any gift today. But on my way back I will ask a
shooting star to ask you beautiful people of planet earth to give each other gifts.
You will tell my story and remember the day the shooting star will write those words
as Boxinn day.”
“And if the shooting star doesn‟t?” The chubby man replied.
“Well then, you know I am not from planet Christmas. Just make sure you give
someone a gift in that day.”
Boxinn climbed on Christmas goat as they began their journey home, a way that they
weren‟t sure that would be remembered.
By the time they left planet earth, he saw a wishing star then he asked to wish star
to write a message everyone on planet earth could see.
The wishing star did and this is what it wrote.
This is Boxinn day and because Father Christmas couldn‟t make it this year it would
be nice for you to give at least one person a gift.
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This is the End for now
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