Southern Nativity




In a small Texas town there was a "Nativity Scene" which showed that 
great skill and talent had gone into creating it.  One small feature 
bothered me.  The three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets. 

Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, I left.  At
a diner on the edge of town, I asked this blonde lady behind the
counter about the helmets. 

She exploded into a rage, yelling at me in her heavy southern drawl, 
"You DAMN Yankees never do read the Bible!" 

I assured her that I did, but simply couldn't recall anything about
firemen in the Bible. 
               
She jerked her Bible from behind the counter and ruffled through some 
pages, and finally jabbed her finger at a passage.  Sticking it in my
face she said, 

"See, it says right here, 'The three wise men came from afar.' "