By CHRISTINE CWIAKALA

Within this story there are 32 Christmas song titles. Can you find them?

It was the first day of the 12 days of Christmas. Bonnie, a typical girl from the little town of Bethlehem, awoke after a silent night's sleep. She went to the kitchen and began eating her breakfast with her Christmas chopsticks. After breakfast, she and her friend, Frosty the Snowman, took a sleigh ride to school. While on the sleigh the students sang their favorite Christmas song, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."

Everything was fine until they got caught in a traffic jam at a crossing where nine little reindeer were eating. The other sleighs grew impatient. and you could sure hear their sleigh bells ring. Chris, the school's little drummer boy, got out of the sleigh into the winter wonderland and moved them to the roadside where the shepherds could watch them while they watched their flocks.

Soon the sleigh arrived at the school. As the students entered the building, they began to deck the halls with boughs of holly: but soon they heard the jingle bells ring and knew it was time to start the school day. No one got much work done that day, for they knew that Santa Claus was coming to town. Half way through the day the sound of silver bells and pitter‑patter could be heard up on the house top.

Everyone jumped to the windows to see what was happening for they knew‑ here comes Santa Claus. Santa's arrival brought the start of the happy holidays as he told the children about the first noel and! the three kings. The students then piled onto Santa's lap and told him of all the joy he could bring to the world if he got them what they wanted.

Santa laughed, "Ho, ho, ho," as he asked Michelle, one of Bonnie's friends, "what child is this that wants only to have a white Christmas?" Then all of a sudden jolly old Saint Nicholas asked the children, "Do you hear what I hear?" They said they did and were right in their guess that Rudolph the red‑nosed reindeer had finally arrived. Santa then passed out the gifts he had for the kids. Then he said he had to go, for he had promised his wife that he'd be home for Christmas. He then left by wishing the boys and girls to have themselves a merry little Christmas.

The children replied with a thank you and said, "We wish you a Merry Christmas, too." The school day was now at an end, and the students returned home to wait for Christmas Day to come upon a midnight clear.