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As the young girl kneels at her bedside to say her prayers, her parents are secretly listening from the hallway.
"Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I should die before I wake / I pray the lord my soul to take.
"And, God, bless my dog Spot."
The girl goes off to sleep.
The next day, sadly, the dog is run over by a milk truck. The entire family is saddened, but the dog is laid to rest in a dignified manner in the back yard.
That night, the young girl says her prayers again:
"Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I should die before I wake / I pray the lord my soul to take.
"And, God, bless Grandma."
The family awakens the next morning to the news that Grandma has passed away in her sleep after a long and happy life.
That night:
"Now I lay me down to sleep / I pray the Lord my soul to keep / If I should die before I wake / I pray the lord my soul to take.
"And, God, bless my daddy."
Well, the man of the house is understandably disturbed. The next morning, he has to be prodded by his wife before agreeing to even get up and go to work. He takes only the back roads and drives at 30 miles per hour. At work, he stays out of the way of tall, heavy file cabinets and refuses to eat the sandwich offered him by a co-worker.
Finally, about 2 p.m., the father decides he can't take it anymore. He gets in the car and weaves his way home, again following the back roads at 30 m.p.h. When he arrives at his home, he finds his wife sitting at the kitchen table crying.
"Honey, what's wrong?"
"The milkman got run over today!"
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