Cheerful Swedish Tomtes

Tomtes keep busy secretly helping industrious farmers with chores.

Sometimes they leave steaming porrige for good girls and boys.

Tomtes love to laugh, sing and make merry!

"But the snow still lies in deep drifts around the old farm in the forest. The stars shine in the sky, it is biting cold. On such a night people creep into their small houses and bank the fire on the hearth.

Here is a lonely old farm, where everyone is fast asleep. All but one..."

From "The Tomten" by Astrid Lindgren