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PAT SANTA’S THRILLING RIDE
圣誕老人的驚險旅程
Elliott Flower
作者：艾略特·弗勞爾
No Santa Claus ever needed a reindeer more than Pat Hogan needed one on a certain Christmas eve. It was a strange kind of reindeer that he finally found, but it made possible a happy Christmas for the Ballinger family.
在圣誕節前夕，沒有一個圣誕老人會比帕特·霍根更需要馴鹿了。他最終找到了一只奇怪的馴鹿，但它卻為巴林格一家帶來了一個快樂的圣誕節。
He was first known as Pat Hogan, but a certain Christmas deed gave him the name of Pat Santa Claus, which was later abbreviated to “Pat Santa.”
他最初叫做帕特·霍根，但他簽署了一份圣誕契約，將他更名為“Pat Santa Claus（帕特圣誕老人）”，后來簡稱為“Pat Santa（帕特圣誕老人）”。
Pat lived and worked close to the end of the peninsula that runs for about eighteen miles straight up Grand Traverse Bay, Traverse City being the base of it and Old Mission near the point. How Pat came there no one knew. He simply appeared one summer during the fruit-gathering season, and went to work on the little farm of Mason Ballinger. Then he remained to assist in cutting timber during the winter, and in the course of two years came to be thought of as almost a member of the family. A strong friendship existed between him and his employer, and there was nothing that Pat would not do for the children.
帕特在半島的盡頭附近生活和工作，半島沿著大特拉弗斯灣直線延伸約18英里，位于特拉弗斯城，Old Mission教堂就在這里附近。沒有人知道帕特是怎么來的。在某個夏天的水果采摘季節，他突然出現，然后就去了梅森·巴林格的小農場工作。他留下來幫忙在冬天砍柴，在兩年的時間里，他幾乎成了梅森·巴林格家里的一員。帕特和雇主之間建立了深厚的友誼，他愿意為孩子們做任何事情。
