In another corner, Santa Claus and his wife, Hortense Louise Claus, are busily making up their differences in a very snuggly fashion. Indeed, an onlooker might feel that it was an inspiring performance if anyone was impolite enough to look. Several empty bottles surround their chosen couch.<.i>

And putting his model trains away, wiping the grease and soot off his sword and sheathing it, he finishes off the flagon and falls, face forward, to sleep.