Show SOMETHING TO RE THANKFUL foil 1 I just wish there any Thanks giving day I 1 just do why ilo you wish lint just I 1 do mean alil raisins to pick and things to choi anil to cut anil to slices and such a time with cooking and dishing up Is eliat all dotty stopped slicing citron for a moment and stood looking air through tho window toward the pray clouds and the trees but was not thinking of either of them all deary me enough and cakes and all sorts of things to help make and boiling and baking and fussing lodo kiil a to the 7 dont sec much to thank for always stewing at a cook stove or scrubbing up a hoor christmas is different from thanksgiving when people get presents after tho cooking is oica but thanksgiving gracious some people might like it who have something to be for but 2 and sho s ho josd her saucy brown head on ono side and threw the lais bohu bad been picking with a jerk waiting tl receive them and also over the bablo anu floor for aliat could bo expected but aliat tho raisins would lly about when they acro pitched and tossed in such a fashion did you ever sec the like of it commenced again even the raising amt try to torment me id like to know what I 1 have to thank for mamma says wo ought to bo thankful eliat wo have alic ri to fix hear it listen to it docs she say peggy il ought to bo thankful for the rheumatism mamius Mami ui dopkins is contented but I 1 dont see what that lias to do with the matter stupid llop kin rheama anni keeps lor limo in tho leg so slie can not port around and enjoy herself tho if its raisins pumpkin and citron or if its liani thit keeps you squatted in a corner hanging over a lire Uc getta wo havo the nico thing to cat after we have helped to make them but ohl what pain alio lias and nothing to cat but what people send her well hc dont have to boil lier t death cooking it somebody else docs it fur her and as lo 10 pain I 1 guess ashes too old and lough to feel much of that and laughed at what alio thought i bit of pleasantry chuckling 0 o as ho los tho raisins she had been gathering up into tho bowl shant do much thanking at any rate ob tho little girl turned half around eliat tho acara quivering qu iverin in her eyes might be unseen oh regetta what has got to be thankful for what docs she do tho week through but stew over alie pan and nothing but misery anyway for fathers lost hiis tiis work and billys spasms are getting worse and lie nato cows gone ury and she ought to bo milking a plenty aul begun dotty trying to say some of lie things in but anthor dead like anstice bruen s and bovo got two cows ct to give niarra and quarts and dont you it s nicer to help make good things ali in never to have any to cat 1 know its bad about hilly but mamma says eliat god knows alic stopped hushed with alic effort alio had made to tell her thought tharo was a low rap ilo orand alic call boino in fi um brought a small figure scantily shivering in at the kitchen bloor bouvo got a firo havn t you said now comer nestling up close to tho red hot atoo tho pots w eru bubbling over and iho smell of good things was acry strong firo fim when alio wind is blasting liko that outside alio have a firo even body has it that cna I 1 suppose but you know it takes so much wood to keep it burning all the lime somo people cannot tim my brother and ruu monstrous lot yesterday but nobody wants to burn it all right up sn a minute Dout your father get ho wood said looking up as abo knelt on one anco giving the last poke to the log with which sho was refreshing tho lire theres nobody but us father is lead jim stryker is good U cut and haul wood why blont your mother get him 0 do it arc your woods noar judge swift lots u go to his woods or faggot and things why you know wooda and as to mother getting anybody why mothers got us iou know gracious barbary your name it got yes binl alio says of all the things she has to be for sho is most thankful for in tiling to bo thankful for its you aho vho livo at tha old swift lodge that s all tumbled down but ono yea and your mother broke arm why yes hut its only and only think liow modi worse it have been biad it been her right mother ay that mercies aio all alio time coining 0 her does your mother wear spectacles iso yes sometime looking up wonderingly 1 I so for it knust lako big glasses to sees her mercies 1 I dont know but mother saya sho will iivo n grimit floal to bo lor lo bui awaa i loro lUng mother lias all about your who Ss alio ia alio sent alico herbs to make n ian aliat bo can drauk whenever ho will for she i sure it will make ami belter 1 stood with the herbs m her as tho tunica to tho door leaving alio preat roaring liro ro and dropping a courtesy as she said bood by dont tho pumpkin burn inquired dotty on her tip toca like as not broke out forever about mercies if that woman at uio lodo has anny annl now I 1 of it dotty it w something to hare father oven if fio is out of work aej something lo 10 have no broken arm anil to hao wood and somebody to cut trees and when tho next day dotty saw t ying on her bonnet toco carry a thanksgiving to the old swift lode and saw her so still and reverent when the thanksgiving iraci was said nt service time sho felt sure that after all did see mor cies and was for suns and certain giving thanks christian at nora |