HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE
XMAS?
The Teacher, Ms. Jones, was very curious about how
each of her students celebrated Christmas.
She called on young Patrick Murphy. "Tell me
Patrick what do you do at Christmas time?" she asked.
Patrick addressed the class, "Well Ms. Jones,
me and my twelve brothers and sisters go to the midnight Mass and we sing
hymns, then we come home very late and we put mince pies by the back door and
hang up our stockings. Then all excited we go to bed and wait for Father
Christmas to come with all our toys."
"Very nice Patrick," she said.
"Now Jimmy Brown what do you do at
Christmas?" Ms. Jones asked.
"Well, Ms. Jones, my sister and I also go to church
with Mom and Dad and we sing carols and we get home ever so late. We put
cookies and milk by the chimney and we hang up our stockings. We hardly sleep
waiting for Santa Claus to bring our presents, " Jimmy replied.
"That's also very nice Jimmy," she said.
Realizing that there was a Jewish boy in the class
and not wanting to leave him out of the discussion she asked Isaac Cohen the
same question. "Now Isaac Cohen, what do you do at Christmas?" she
asked.
Isaac said, "Well we also sing carols!"
Isaac responded.
Surprised, Mrs. Jones questioned further.
"Tell us what you sing,"
"Well, it's the same thing every year. Dad
comes home from the office. We all pile into the Rolls Royce, then we drive to
his toy factory. When we get inside, we look at all the empty shelves and begin
to sing “What a friend we have in Jesus,”
then we all go to the Bahamas."