When Christmas Eve came he’d harness up his reindeers, Dasher, and Prancer, and Vixen, and the rest of them, and wrap himself up in furs, and light his big pipe, and cram his sled full of the doll-babies and Noah’s arks, and all the other toys he’d been making, and off he’d go with a great shout and tremendous ringing of sleigh-bells.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

She wanted him to live with her in Arkhangelsk.

And the sons of Noah, who came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

She wanted to settle down with him in Arkhangelsk.

And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

With perseverance, even the snails boarded the ark.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly, went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.