.(c)Santa led Hobo to the fireplace. Once they both crowded into the small opening, he held Hobo by the collar and touched the side of his nose. Hobo felt as though he shrunk to fit the opening and had the feeling of dropping through mid air at the same time. Suddenly they were on the side of a snow covered hill looking downward at an odd building. "I would normally use my reindeer and sleigh to travel," Santa explained, "but the circumstances call for extreme measures. And the reindeer are all locked away in any case." Hobo now observed that things seemed strange. The sign marking the home of Santa looked wrong.