A Way in a Manger

On the night of the Christmas Play given by the Hope Valley School third graders, rain came down hard and the children wished it were snow, though in Tennessee they rarely saw the spectacle of snow.“It’ll snow, I bet,” Johnny Johnson said. Johnny was the tallest boy in class, and he could run faster than any other boy in the third, or the fourth, grade. In fact, he seemed always to be running—since his mother had been confined to a wheelchair the year before.“You always say it’ll snow, but i...