E is for elves

Elf filling a stocking to help Santa

 I don't remember elves being "a thing" when I was a child.  Santa just did the job unaided.  I suppose that the population of the world has increased so much in the last seventy years that sorting out presents is too big a job even for Santa and he needs a few helpers.  

Don't tell any local children but I am a supply elf.  It's true.  The last couple of years Santa has been head scratching a bit over just how many elves he needs so he has recruited me to help with a few knitted gifts.  Last year he asked me to make scarves, this year it's hats.  I wish he'd put in his order a little earlier as I've got three hats to make: only two are knitted and none is made up!

Better get back to work.