Deck of Cards

During world war II A group of solders was on a long jurney They arrived on a small town called casino The next day being Sunday some of the boys went to church After the preacher had read the prayers the text was taken up The solders who had prayer books took them up Then one boy, a young private produce a deck of cards And he spreads them up infront of them The sargent in charge saw the cards and said solder! Put away those cards... After the service, the solder was put under arrest and brought before the commanding officer The C.O said sargent!. why you brought this Man here For playing cards in church sir The officer look at the solder and said I hope you have an explanation. If not I will punish you more than any solder ever been punish Now what have you got to say And so the boy began his story... Sir, I have been on the march for six days I had no Bible and a prayer book But I have these cards You see sir... When I look at the AAs... It remainds me there is but one God When I see the dous it remainds me the Bible is divided into two parts The old and the new testaments When I see the tris I think of God the father, the Sun and the holy Gost Sir, when I see the four I think of the four great deciples that preach the gosple They ware Mattew, Mark, Luke and John The five remainds me of the five wise virgins with theire lamps Five ware wise and ware save Five were folish and were cast out When I see the six I know in six days God makes heaven and earth And the seven brings to mind on the seventh day he rested and call it holy... When I look at the Eight... I think of the rightous persons God save when he distroyed this earth They ware Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives When I see the nine, I think of the lappers our saviour cleans and nine of the ten didn't thanked I look at the ten, and Ithink of the ten commamdment God give to moses on a table of stone The king tells me once again there is only one king of heaven God almighty... And the Queen, Our bleesed vergin Marry. The Queen of heaven The jargon name is the devil When I count the numbers sport on my deck of cards I found 365 the number of days in a year There are 52 cards, the number of weeks in a year. There are 4 suits... the number of weeks in a month And there are 12 picture cards the number of months in a year So you see sir, my deck of cards has served me as a Bible and a prayer book The charge against the solder was dismised... Folks this is a true story because I knew