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The Holly Tree (a 4th century Christmas tale)

Since you saved the Holy Family, from now on we’ll call you & all your kin the Holy Tree. But it’ll change from Holy tree to Holly tree.

When Jack was growin’ up, his daddy give him a brand new shotgun for Christmas. Jack was as proud as a peacock over this new gift.

Let us leap off the cliff together & end our trouble, said he. She consented, so arm-in-arm they walked to the cliff, where they leaped off.

You know “Jack & the Beanstalk.” There’s more where that came from! Jack Tales are part of a cycle of folk stories that revolve around–Jack.

Gib Morgan never wrote down his tall tales before he died. Even so, the real life of Gilbert Morgan became Gib Morgan, the myth.

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