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Show For Younger Readers. Short Storiks tor Littli: Folks A Thanksgiving Storj. (A . r ij I ait I fVp"".) It teemed to Alice that she Ind only teen asleep a minute, but Alien she opened her e)eslt was broad Oa light ' I suppose 1 must lump right up as this UTIunW,U Iiik 0.1) ami t gU e my party tl Is aficrnoon " ' Must ceitalnly," rcplltil a strange olce ' but don't forget llit biskets " 4 What baskets? ' she asked, nml then Alice a a quceMooklnj little olil mm let an Immense bisket uu the table, and before she could count he had whisked out of the room She sprang out of bed and mil to peep Into the basket, thinking some ono had sent hir a nice llnnksglvlnj remtm-t remtm-t ranee Oh, howprotokln:! Onlj onchtllL empty bisket Inside a big empty buket Tl.ats just my luck,' she murmured, 'I in ala disippolntcd1 Uhit a lorrld, mean trick that uas lo play on me I believe tint little old man una mischievous boy with n filsi-fjcu on I suppose now lie is chucl line to himself and sajlni; 'ilr, he! How I looled htrl' U it was Cousin Dick 1 II pay h m bsck " Alicellfied up the little bisket Under I' s n letter Openlns It, she read tnese lines My Diaii I irrt r rrirNn-t wn i you I vo wktii Ono Is fur your Hunt, lbs oil tr lor ow Millions. Aller II e ar I llcj, ret irn lo tbt Klnj MtS ISNCIItTO IIIS KOVAL HlOIIKriS "riutislovelyl ' she cried, clapping her hands ' I have wanted so much to isitu real King I never knew there as ono living lure. 1 Of coursu I sh ill receive somo hind- some gifts, for kings always five little this beautiful presents, at leist they do In fairy stories, which tell oil about j cnstles, kings and princes ' After carefully dressing herst-lf she sat 1 down at her writing desk to tldnk of the !lWngs she wanted and of what she had to he thankful for "The bigbssket of coirse was meant Ijt the things I want, and as I hae had noihlng but dissapointmenrs and bad luck all ear, the liny basUt will Just do for my thanks " ' I don t believe I hive any blessings I ' ra suie it will be hard for me to senpe Ho,", !"ila ,l,a.nk ' ,I0P I pe.1l the I anrt V'1,'!' ".' " X'y "wlo a stllsh "nel Hut being only 10 years old ineie were nnny words that she did not rthrM;iglUna,,wou"ta-: rthrM;iglUna,,wou"ta-: In the little basket she put tho cardi, on which she wrote "Thanks for the butlful Bill doll, but she h id awful old-fishioneil old-fishioneil clot Thanks for the I lencli nut end cr, but Iwo of his teeth wcio broken 111 toy do),'s tall did not suit me at ill M ehina set of dishes were nice, but one saucer had a crjck in It " 1 hen she mi to work nml wrote the thlin"i she rnted on fccpinte tird, and suou the 1 111,0 basket w is heaping full She wanted a little World s 1 air, n toy elevator for her dolls a work bos, somo rings, n pair of bracelets, new dresses she wanted n lemunade foun-tiln foun-tiln tint would spout nil the lime, she winted It 10 snow Ice cremi she wanted n w hole confectioner) ton 11 ind a private landy manufactory and nnny other things This task done, she put on her new mini furs, tied her ostrich tipped hut under her chin und started on her Journey As It was, to be n real nils en-lure, en-lure, she snld nothing to her minima or papi She thourht on her return she would till them all uhuut it Other we re foing up to the King's palace with petitions un I thanks, so Alice hid no trouble finding the wav At list she, with nnny others, stood with their baskets before the King. ".Now I nin ready for jour thinks," he slid 'Will each one hold up Ihe bisket containing his Hunks Ntfirly everybody held up the little basket In a fLW were dwnrfed, dried up thanks, or parts of thanks while min were tn,it) Alice noticed tint the little cripple gill whost mother wmt out washing had herlirgc bisket filled with thanks bhe hid thanks for her home, her mother, n rmde-oecr dress, thanks fur n flower, thinks for I lie sunshine, thanks fot a bird that came to hcrwindow every morning to sing to her, thinks for Joinny Jones giving her n ride on his sled, thanks fir a hat nml dress Alice had cent her, in fact Alice couldn t be fin to count the thln.s this little gift had to be thankful lor This bisket seemed to plcise the King, and he ordered or-dered it to lie Tilled with the choicest of fclfts Hie farmer, too, had a big bisket of thanks, but the rest ol the lar,e bis ketj were filled with petitions The king then ordered thrni nil lo be emptied, emp-tied, and they made almost n mountiin He commindcd a miteh to le struck and thrown among them In a few moments there was n great bonfire. Ihe blaze leaped up so high that Alice gave a scrntn Imagine her surprise when she found It wis only a drem. Hut that da when a little j.1 rl went to church she took n very i,riteful little he irt hen sho begun to think of her blessings she had Co many she could not coi tit them Among the tucsts at hcrThanksglv-ing hcrThanksglv-ing dinner in the afternoon was the young cripple child, the little newsboy who brought her pipa the dall) pipers, and Mary Ann Smith, the shoemaker s daughter, who lived In Ihe cellar below Hie grocer) stor, Alice gave her one of her own pretty dresses with a real silk sash. 1 would like to tell ) 011 more about the dinner, and wlnt good things were prepired for the children of the turkey, the Iru t cike, nuts, cindy ind Ice cremi. and how thu children pla)ed delightful gnmes nut I have on!) time to hend each of )oua couple of biskets, one Is shnll nnd the other is lirgc In which will jou put jour thinks' |
