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Show If 1 A REAL THANKS- I GIVING DAY I :; i AFTER ALL B 1 '' H i I U 'j By ollve Allen H j!l II was ThankBglvling morning. Ted- B ' ' 'i 1 ! J jumped out of lied, shivering as H ' j ; the air struck him, and peered out H ' 'l of the window. Honds and fences had H ) 1 1 , vanished, folded up without a wrln- B T- fc lo lnto Great soft white fields . And fbtlll the snow fell, hanging the trees with ermlno too dear for an earl. Teddy understood now what that line from Longfellow's "First Snowfall" H . ' meant, iiud ho had not known a bit H when he learned It In the sunny H school room In Florida. You see, H ' I , ! Teddy, although he was seven, had B ' j I, always lived in Florida and had nov- is er seen snow heforo this Thanksgiv- I ing morning when he pressed his face close to the window In his aunt's H houso in Maine. H i Soon he began to dress. There was H I it stir la the halls, so ho knew It was H ' time. Besides, he could hardly watt H ' for what the day was to bring. At H i eleven o'clock they would all pile Into H ' I n big sleigh Teddy had never been H iff in a sleigh, of course and ride H across the fields and over those hid- H i den fences to Grandma's. At least H , , j she was Nora's grandmn, and Nora H ., i ' was the little cousin ho was visiting. H1 " J So ho called her grandma, too. H' ir, ' , j Ho was drcssnJ at last, except for H ' ' ' j a few buttons, and he went out into H !.! I the hall. Tho first person ho saw Bf. , ! "' ' ns a BtraI,Sor weitrtng a blue and H I ! white dress under ti big apron, and H ! a perky cap on her head. Teddy felt H , I hostile at once. Sho did not look H Thanksgiving)'. Sho stopped and Bl I j i smiled kindly enough. B, I I "Your name's Tetcr, Isn't H7" she ! t K . asked. "Well, Peter, I've got somo bad news; tho baby Is sick with measles, mea-sles, and so you hnd Nora have got to stay tight hero and not go to your grandmas at all, for fear of carrying the germs. Nora lb down stairs already, al-ready, and Lizzie will give you your breakfast. Your aunt won't leave the room where the baby is. Now bo as good and quiet as you can." He stared at her, outraged. It was too dreadful to believe. She slid into the baby's room and closed the door, and ho went down stairs feeling numb all over. There at a little tablo sat Nora. Sho was Just his age, nd sho wore her bushy light brown hair Just like h',s. She looked at him and quivered, quiver-ed, but tried to bo brave. "Will you Bit down with mo at this littlo table?" sho said politely. "Tho big one won't be set for a long time, Llzzlo says. Measles aro so sure to go right through tho family. Perhaps wo won't have any Christ mas, either," sho gulped. "I'm going right home," declared Teddy1, plumping himself Into a chair. "Wo always have turkey and tilings, and you've made me come all the way up hero Just for nothing." "It's Just as hard for me," remonstrated remon-strated Nora; "and, anyway, you've seen tho ijnow." "I don't think snow is very Inter-estlng," Inter-estlng," ho cried. "And then thoro Is mo to play with." "Thero Is a littlo girl In Tampn I Ike much better," he growled, pulling pull-ing his chair very rudely from tho tablo nnd seizing a newspaper as IX to read it. Nora put her head down nnd cried and neither child nto tho nice breakfast break-fast Llzzlo had cooked. Presently Nora got up hnd wclit Into hor play room next door, whllo Teddy sulked Sho tied on an apron and pretended she was a trained nurse, and then put her pot doll to bed with measles. WhlJo sho was holding a spoon of. mediclno to Its lips tho big tabby cat came In, mid Nora seized her and tucked her into the other doll's bed and ladled out a spoonful of tho same dark mlxturo for hor. Whcjn Nora tried to pour It down her throat sho viavo a terrible splutter and sneezed bo loud that Teddy ran to tho door and began to laugh. "You bo the doctor," cried Nora;' handing h,m Uie bottlo. "It Is Chin-chona Chin-chona bark." Whon1 that cat hehrd tho word bark of courso she thought a dog was coming and sho tried to Jump up In bed ond get ready to defend herself. her-self. Tho children laughed and pushed push-ed hor back onto tho pillows, but when sho saw Teddy pick up tho bottle bot-tle agatu sho mado n loap through the air; carrying one of the sheets on her back and fled through a door. It looked so funny that the children sat down on the floor and laughed and laughed. They laughed so hard they did not hear the Jingle of sleigh bells untlj the sleigh was right In front ot the house. Then they Jumped Jump-ed up and flew to the window. There stood a sleigh, with pumpkins tugging like a fringe around It. "Oct your hats and coats and take a ride," said one of their neighbors, who had heard about the measles and was sorry for them. What a ride they had! There were no roads left, so they flew across the fields, and once, In turning quickly to nvold the upstanding post of a fence, tho s'.elgh tipped over, nnd Teddy ond Nora rolled out in tho cfriow. That was tho most fun of all. When nt last they reached home they wero very hungry. "I suppose thero Is nothing to eat," Teddy sulked again as they opened the dining room door on tho way to the kitchen. What do you suppose they saw? A great pumpkin filled with red apples and nuts, )n the middle of tho big table. ta-ble. At each end a place was sot nnd by It was a carrot carved Into the shape ot a boat. Just then Lizzie came In and pushed tho youngsters Into the kitchen, where she opened the oven door to show them a flno turkey browning. "You poor darlings," sho said, "you Just havo the hnpple.st Thanksgiving you ever had!" And so they did. They ato a lot of overyth'ng they liked best. A great wood fire spluttered on ono side ready to pop corn later. Then Norn took Teddy out and taught him how to coast on her flexible flyer. |