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▲ Anna DownyBethel Christian School, fourth grade
▲ Nelson VeraWilson Middle School, sixth grade
▲ Elda AlicusicPerry School, second grade
▲ Nylejhia JonesWayne School, fifth grade
▲ Ripley BlairWattsburg Elementary Center, fourth grade
▲ Matthew JewellLuther Memorial Academy, sixth grade
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Each night the family is eatingdinner together and traveling tosome amazing locations, magi-cally. Last night they visited NewOrleans during Mardi Gras andthey learned the origin of gum-bo. They can’t wait to see wherethey’re going next.
When Mom called out,“Game Night!” thenext evening, every-
onewasconfused.Whatdidshemean? Wasn’t it dinnertime?
But once they entered thekitchen, it was obvious to ev-eryone that she wasn’t kidding.Therewerelotsofcardsplacedonthekitchentableandnofoodin sight. And no silverware.
They sat down. Mom taughteveryonehowtoplaypokerandcasino and gin rummy.
“Mom, I didn’t know youcould play cards,” Joseph said.
“My grandfather taught meall kinds of games,” Mom said.“We’d play all the time. Hedidn’t talk much, but he was agreat teacher when it came tocardgames.Ilovedplayingwithhim.”
“Howcomeyounevertaughtus?” Jamie asked.
“I wanted to, but you guyssaid you played solitaire onyour computers and that wasthe only card game you want-ed to learn,” Mom answered,sadly.
“But this is so much morefun,” Joseph said, as he placedhis last card face down on thepile and announced loudly,“Gin! I win!”
“It is fun playing together,but what’s going on?” Toddwantedtoknow.“Cardsinsteadof food?”
“Card games can lead tofood,” Mom said. “They havebefore. Just look over there.”
And they did. Jamie, Todd,Joseph, and Dad looked intothe corner of the kitchen —or what they thought was thecorner of their kitchen. Sud-denly it seemed as if they werein some kind of tavern. Therewerelotsofmenplayingcards.
“Boy,I’mexceedinglyhungry,bringmesomefood,”oneofthemencalledouttoJosephgruffly.
“Me?”Josephasked,pointingto himself and looking aroundto see if the man could havebeen talking to someone stand-ing behind him.
“You there, boy,” the mainsaid impatiently. “Bring mesome food.”
Joseph glanced around andsawaplateofmeatandpotatoeson a nearby table. He picked itup and hurriedly walked overtothemanandplacedtheplatedown in front of him.
“Boy, do you not have eyes?”the man demanded. “Can you
not see that my hands are oc-cupied?”
In fact, Joseph could see thattheman’shandswereoccupied.He was holding a hand of cardsand clearly was involved in agame with several other men.He just didn’t know what theinsistentgentlemanwantedhimto do about it.
“Can you not bring me some-thing with which to hold thefood?” the man asked. “I don’twanttogetmeatgreasealloverthe cards. It might bring badluck.”
Josephlookedaround,butallhe saw was a plate of bread. Henoticed that Milton was bark-ing wildly and running circlesaround the plate of bread.
Thecard-playingmanwasex-asperated. He ordered Josephto quiet the barking dog.
“Why is that animal makingso much noise?” the man de-manded to know. “He’s ruining
my card concentration.”But he looked at Milton and
then at the plate of bread, andhis face lit up. He appeared tohave developed an idea. Jo-seph’s family could almost seethe light bulb illuminated overhis head.
“Here, boy, bring me twoslices of that bread,” he calledout.Josephbroughttheplateofbread to him and handed himtwo thick slices. With that, theman picked up the bread and apiece of roast beef and placedthe meat between the breadslices.
“Now that’s better,” the manremarked,satisfied.“NowIcanholdmymealandplaymygamewithoutgettingmyhandsdirty.”
Joseph walked back to thefamily, grumbling about beinghungry himself and not likingthe rude way the man spoke tohim.
“I’dwatchmytongueifIwereyou,” a man said as he walkedby. “You don’t want to insultJohn Montagu,” he said as hepointed to the man Joseph hadjust served.
“He’s a nobleman here inEngland, with a title and every-thing.”
“Title?” Joseph asked. “I’lltell you what his title should be— rude!”
“Well that’s not his title atall,” the man said. “He’s theEarl of Sandwich.”
“That explains a lot,” Dadsaid, as he pointed to the Earl,passing his newly invented“sandwich” around the cardtable.
“So,Iguessit’sgoodthatMon-tagu didn’t come from a placecalled Glockenshplitz, becauseordering a tuna glockenshplitzontoastdoesn’tsoundsogood,”joked Todd.
“And the funny thing is,”said Dad, “that Montagu wasn’tevenfromSandwich.Hewasre-allyfromanotherEnglishtown,Portsmouth. His family got theSandwich title because thefirst Earl in the family was theleader of a fleet of ships off thecoast of Sandwich. They gavehim that title to honor his lead-ership. I wrote an article abouthim once.”
“I wish I had a title,” saidTodd.
“What do you want to becalled?” asked Jamie.
“Soccer King,” answeredTodd.
“The way you play, you’d belucky to be called Soccer CourtJester,” said Joseph.
“Gin rummy,” said Mom asshe placed her last card facedownonthedinnertable.“Fin-ish your ‘glockenshplitzes’ andget started on your homework,please, so you can get to bedearly. You’re going to need torestupfortomorrow’s ‘egg-cite-ment.’”
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Next week:Chapter 10: Africa Awaits
The Magical Dinner Table — Chapter 9: Sandwich Stories
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“I would like to go to Italy tocelebrate Saint Paul’s Festival.I heard that during the SaintPaul’s Festival, they sell Italianpastries, go to church, and havea good time. I would like to gowithmygrandma,dadandsister,because they are Italian, too.” —Sophia Lehman, sixth grade, WilsonMiddle School
“I would like to go to Floridabecause I have family livingthere, and I would like to cele-bratewiththem.Itisalotwarmerthere than Erie. I would take myparents and siblings.” — Elvis
Gordillo, sixth grade, Wilson MiddleSchool
“I’d like to go to Florida. 1. It iswarm. 2. I’d like to go to DisneyWorld, because they have a holi-day special where they do lots offun parades. I would go with myfamily.” — Vanessa Williams, fifthgrade, Bethel Christian School
“I would like to go to Floridabecause it’s cold here, and inFloridaitiswarm!Iwouldliketogowithmyfamily.Andweneedtodrive almost two days. I’d love togotoFlorida.”— Jenna Sadchikov,fifth grade, Bethel Christian School
“IwouldgototheFirstThanks-givingbecauseitwouldbecooltosit with the Pilgrims. It would begreat to eat the first turkey ever.I would like to talk to the Indi-ansandPilgrims.” — Ryan Miller,fourth grade, Wattsburg ElementaryCenter
“I would go to the North Poleto have Christmas with the pen-guins and elves. I would take alot of art supplies so that I couldmake bowties for the penguins.”— Hannah Devine, fourth grade,Wattsburg Elementary Center
“I would go to Rio de Janeiro.
I would go there for Carnival. Iwould take my family and somefriends. I would enjoy the fes-tivities and the warm weather.”— Jameel Anderson, sixth grade,Luther Memorial Academy
“I would go to Russia becauseIwouldliketoknowwhatit’slikethere during Christmas. Howdo they celebrate? Do they cel-ebrate at all? My sister and mymom would go with me becausethey probably could speak Rus-sian better than I.” — AmmielaAgayev, sixth grade, Luther Memo-rial Academy
“Iwouldratherstayhomethantravel somewhere else. To me,familyisthemostimportantthingin my life. I would enjoy stayinghome, relaxing with my familythan going to some big city oracross the world. During Christ-mastimemyfamilythatIdon’tgettoseeoftencomesuptovisit. Igoto family gatherings and love tojust spend time with my family.To me, Christmas is about beingwithyourfamilyandcelebratingthe true meaning of Christmas.”— Kaylee Mulligan, seventh grade,Saegertown Jr./Sr. High School
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