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Bearing Gifts Back in my preteen years, in what I hope was a brief period when I was old enough to know better and too young to care, I was chosen to be one of the three wise men in our Sunday School Christmas pageant-probably because my Dad was superintendent of the Sunday School, and I had a new bathrobe. We three “wise guys” had to wait outside the church so that we could parade up the aisle when our cue came. None of us had any gold, and we didn’t know what frankincense or myrrh were, but I had come up with something to take to “Mary,” a very serious-minded girl a year younger than I. I had appropriated my mother’s silver cigarette case, and a cigarette which I lighted and put in the case, after I stopped coughing, so that the smoke would look like “incense” as we came up the aisle. I hope it was at a rehearsal when we trooped in, all walking like Groucho Marx. “Mary” was facing the congregation when I knelt in front of her. “Mary,” I murmured, “I brought you a camel.” I hope the congregation never knew why she broke into laughter. –cgj
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I L S O N C O U N T Y + + + + + + + + + + + = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Each of the 10 letters in WILSON COUNTY has been given a different value from zero through nine. Given the total value of the letters in each of the 10 words below, can you find the value of each letter, and the total value of WILSON COUNTY? SCOUT=23 OUT=15
YOU=21 SLOT=12
TWINS=19 CUT=12
SOUL=17 LIST=8
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M A T C H B O X E S “Neither cast ye _ _ _ _ _ _ before _ _ _ _ _, lest they trample them...” Matthew 7:6 Solve these two multiplication problems and write your answers in the box tops, one digit to each box. Then match boxes to find the missing words in the quotation above in your answers.
2 4 2 8 5 6 S P S E A W X
1 3 4 6 9 L N P W I
2 S
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2 S
BEFORE
Happy Holidays! © 2011 Charles Joyner
30 DECEMBER 2011 Carolina Country
COST=17 TWO=11
For answers, please see page 33