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Then they run off to watch some children making christmas. In this episode, the teletubbies are eating tubby toast, when a voice trumpet rises and tells them twas the night before christmas. Crackers are small cardboard tubes covered with tissue paper. Just dont forget your best hat and scarf it can get chilly. Tom smith christmas crackers are the original christmas cracker and we are the largest supplier of tom smith christmas crackers in the united states. These are the snaps used today in christmas crackers to supply their bangs, although fifty years were to elapse before the late tom brown, for many years an experimental chemist to my firm hit upon the idea of their construction and sold it to the late tom smith.
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