Day ONE: A Partridge in a Pear Tree

Day ONE: A Partridge in a Pear Tree

You’ve heard of “FIIIIIIVE golden rings!”? Well, here’s what we’re gonna do this week before Christmas – give you FIIIIVE favorite puppy photos from the Service Dog Project and Chaos’ Great Dane Puppies. Consider it a little reprieve from the holiday madness or else an extra addition to the elf-like magic swirling around you.

“The most likely origin of the carol is in a memory game played on Twelfth Night many years ago. The players would sing a verse in turn and each player would add a new gift when it came to their own verse – the catch was that they had to remember the all the earlier gifts as they sang their way through the list of presents. Anyone who forgot a gift would have to pay a forfeit to entertain everyone else.”

Despite the urban legend, the BBC also says, “There’s no evidence to suggest that the carol was written as a covert catechism… But, legend or not, if anyone wants a song to teach a few basic Christian beliefs and test their memory, The Twelve Days of Christmas would seem to fit the bill nicely.”