When Rudolph came to the North Pole, the reindeer had a red nose, which was different from all the others. Comet had never been impressed and seemed a bit jealous of all the attention the other reindeer were giving this one.
Comet was the oldest of the nine reindeer brought to the North Pole to pull Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve. In the beginning, things went well, but the weather had changed over the years, making it a challenge to get to all the children.
One night a week before the big day, Comet saw a red light glowing in the distance and went out to check it out. Once he saw that it was Rudolph’s nose with a red glow going on and off, he began to laugh and laugh.
“Are you for real, Rudolph? What is that you have attached to your nose?”
Tearfully, Rudolph told Comet it wasn’t an attachment but his real nose.
“Come on, none of us have noses that light up. I know your nose has always been red but the same color glowing of all things.”
“It just started to do this, and I have no idea what’s going on. Do you Comet?”
Comet walked away laughing and went back into the barn to tell all the others. As he revealed what he had just seen, the other reindeer told Comet he had to be mistaken, and they all walked out to where Rudolph was standing, covered in tears.
They all watched as Rudolph’s nose had a red glow going on and off. Vixen told the others that Santa needed to know about this so he could get the vet to check Rudolph out.
“Come with us, Rudolph, to see Santa. He will get to the bottom of this problem and fix it for you.”
Comet was watching from the doorway and followed the others as they escorted Rudolph to Santa’s workshop, hoping he could fix the problem. Quickly, Comet stepped in front of the others and, getting Santa’s attention, told him that he needed to fix Rudolph’s nose before it caused a problem on the big day.
“Rudolph, come over near me, and we can see what the problem is that Comet is so worried about.”
The youngest reindeer slowly made his way through the crowd of reindeer and stood near Santa, his nose shining a red glow over the entire workshop.
“Santa, please make it stop.” Rudolph cried.
“I see now why when you came to us, you had a red nose instead of the normal color like all the other reindeer. Let’s go and see Dr. Humour. Maybe he can tell us why it’s now glowing and if there is a way to turn it off and on. Everyone else, go back to the barn, and I’ll let you know what we find out.”
Comet stomped away, upset at all the attention the baby reindeer was getting just because his nose wasn’t typical. Maybe once he could find out how to get one like that, perhaps even more significant, he would then be treated special, too.
Santa and Rudolph returned to the barn and told them that this particular reindeer’s red glow was usual. It would be helpful whenever the weather was challenging to see through on our big day.
Comet was not impressed and asked Santa how they all could get a nose like Rudolph’s.
Santa replied, “That’s not possible. You have to be born with this special red nose like Rudolph’s.”
Santa declared Rudolph would be put in the lead on bad weather nights to light their way.
