Subject: The Pressed Leaf
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 02:13:50 EDT
"Phoning Home"
We had a power failure last night as we sat
down to dinner. We wanted to know if the power
failure was just local or area wide. My wife
asked our two six year old grandsons, Matthew
and J.R., to go up to the smallest bedroom (the
only non-portable phone in the house - portable
phones require electricity to work) and dial J.R.'s
home to see if the answering machine worked.
It was a simple concept; no power - no answering
machine.
J.R.'s home telephone number had changed
recently so he did not have it memorized yet.
My wife wrote down J.R.'s home telephone
number and then asked the boys to read it back
to her. The boys repeated the first three numbers
and were stumped by the dash (new concept).
Upon reading the whole telephone number back
to her, off the boys went to the telephone in the
smallest bedroom.
A few minutes later Matthew came back down
stairs and said, "Grandma, we can't find the
dash button on the phone!"
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"The Pressed Leaf"
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible
with fascination, he looked at the old pages as
he turned them. Then something fell out of the
Bible and he picked up and looked at it closely.
It was an old leaf from a tree that has been
pressed in between pages.
"Momma, look what I found!" the boy called out.
"What have you got there, dear?" his mother
asked.
With astonishment in the young boy's voice he
answered: "It's Adam's suit!!!!!"
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