Jack Moore’s Reindeer
*December 6, 1941 bottom floor of the Loren Farr Elementary Ogden, Utah, Miss Corey’s First Grade writing class assignment was write a story about "The Three Wise Men."
*Six months later Miss Corey along with the school principal Mrs. Light's consent informed Jacks mother that Jack would be held back one year for a repeat of the first grade.
*Jack Moore’s mother responded, "My boy will not be held back a year. I will go all the way to the Utah State Board of Education if necessary.”
*While unaware of the above stated happenings, the author of this true story includes below what little Jack Moore had written on day of the Christma assignment "Three Wise Men...as best he could.
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I don’t know any wise men so I’m going to write about Santa’s reindeer.
The reindeer is a mamal. It has six sides, right side, left side, front side and back side, topside
bottom side. On the back side sits a little tail which sends away the deer flies so they won’t get
little Barbie’s milk.
The front side is for growing horns each year, so they have a place to be.
Reindeer can smell down hills and they smell a long way, that’s why mountain air smells.
Horns are used to bunt with. The horns shed all over the ground but you can’t find them because grownups put them on walls.
Its mouth is to eat with. The reindeer eats twigs but it doesn’t eat much, because it eats it twice and then it’s full.
The sides of Santa’s deer have straps to guide Santa’s sleigh. They look the same on both sides, at Hardware Ranch too.
They have two big ears with lots of hair to hear good. They are the only ones that can listen to whispering pines.
Four legs are on their bottom side, they leave tracks in mud and snow like lobster legs. Their legs are for to jump, because they want to be free.
The man deer is called a buck. He is not a mamal. He has the other deer go first in the woods for his safety.
Dads like to shoot them in season. That’s why they look sad.
HAVE A HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Love, Jack Moore
They can fly I
don't know
how they
Do it yet
Post Amble
Andy Neil sat behind Jack More and whispered in his ear,
"The three wise men are dead
Please, Mrs. Corry let us write something we know
Something we see, something that be.
Stand up Jack and sing out loud.
Old Lady Corry
Use the lavatorie
That’s what its forie,
That’s what its forie!”
That fall Jack’s mom transferred Jack to the Quincy grade school located in downtown Ogden. instead of walking one block to school Jack had to walk one mile so as to be able to be in the second grade. He eventually became a successful heart surgeon at Cornell University, and presently lives in St. George, Utah.
Andy Neil, passed on to second grade with Miss Cory’s blessings; at a later time became a chicken farmer in Cache Valley.
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
