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Show to be - "i iSAiZ DON'T know that I have any-oM0r any-oM0r thing to be thankful for," il f complained the boarder la jt-flT I 1 arrears as he sadly rattled J J a 1 bunch of keys. CJ "What do you want to '&$f Bta!t anything like that ttlH for?" inquired the sarcastic boarder. "Don't you know that you will start us all figuring out things that we have to be thankful for when you make a remark like that and It will be an awful bore?" "There's one thing," announced tha timid boarder In a still, small voice from away down at the obscure end of the table. "There's one thing," he repeated after clearing his throat. "And whnt Is It?" asked the polite boarder, recklessly. ' "The thing for us to he thankful for at Thanksgiving Is that It is so near Christmas." "Oh, yes!" cried the pretty teacher, enthusiastically. "Yes," continued the timid boarder, greatly encouraged, "so near Christmas, Christ-mas, and yet not too near." "That gives us two things to be thankful for," commented the mathematical mathe-matical hoarder, counting on his fingers. fin-gers. "First, that Thanksgiving Is so near Christmas; second, that Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Is so far from Christmas " "I'm thankful that it doesn't corns near the Fourth of July," declared tha fat and saucy boarder. "The arrangement arrange-ment of our holidays throughout the year is exactly right. We have one egg-eating holiday per annum namely, name-ly, Easter w hich comes In the H-r'ng-We have one holiday devoted to the eating of fried chicken and Ice cream namely, the Fourth of July. The Thanksgiving holiday In the fall is sacred to turkey and pumpkin pie, and Christmas to plum pudding and mince pie." "One festival sacred to new hats snd flowers," burst out the poetic boarder, "one devoted to speeches, patriotism pa-triotism and picnics, one for family reunions, and one for the giving of presents." "As I said before," resumed the timid boarder, "Thanksgiving Is Just the right distance from Christmas. We can say to ourselves: 'Yfe can't get a turkey or new suit of clothes or a new house or a new sutomoblle this Thanksgiving, but Christmas will soon he here, snd then we'll have everything! ev-erything! We'll have more money at Christmas time than we have now, and things will be easier generally. The boss and the bachelor millionaire that we were so kind to will probably send us a check. Everybody loose up at Christmas time If ever. "So we enn lie thankful at Thanksgiving Thanks-giving time that we are so near a good feed and the season when people are apt to come across, thus enabling u to loosen up nnd come across a little ourselves maybe." Which message of good cheer brightened bright-ened up all the faces around the table, even causing the boarder In arrears to smile, slightly. |