The Twelve Days of Christmas

A Quick Compendium "Biography" for the Season

“On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, A partridge in a pear tree.”

-The 12 Days of Christmas, a carol first published in England in the late 18th century.

I have always loved the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” not for the meaning (why is the partridge in a pear tree and how do you give…