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Show MOBYS SI EYEMIMG WP emrytme. Mary Graham Bonner THANKSGIVING Mrs. Cucumber Green bad been invited in-vited out to dinner on Thanksgiving day. All her family had been invited, invit-ed, too. Oh, she was so much pleased about It. Mrs. Cucumber Green had been given giv-en a special invitation. "Bring your little girl," her mother had been told, "and tell her to bring her dolls." So Mrs. Cucumber Green, who called herself by that play name, and wild was really a little girl herself, began to get ready for the Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing invitation. She hud to get all her children ready. Of course Lucifer, the cloth cat, didn't have to receive much attention. at-tention. But she brushed him off a little and he sat up looking as line as ever. Then Rubble, the cloth doll, was looking handsome and well. So was Gyp. the sawdust dog. Johnny Naples, the worsted doll, looked very tine. But Allie Ban hud to be dressed very carefully. It was a cold day so Allie Baa wore her little extra pink' flannel petticoat, and she wore her sailor blouse and skirt and her little pink worsted cap and scarf and warm slippers. Oh. it was exciting to think of having hav-ing all her children invited out, too. Mrs. Cucumber Green was very happy about it. "You will all behave well, I know, and be a pride and joy to your mother," moth-er," Mrs. Cucumber Green said, and all the children answered: "Dear Muvvy. we will be a pride and joy to you." At last the time came when t hey all got started. "Goodness me," said Becky, the cook, as she saw them starting off, "is the little darlin' going to take all her belongings?" "Yes," said Mrs. Cucumber Green, "all my children were invited." They hadn't far to go, and Mrs. Cucumber Cu-cumber Green took her children in the old express cart. They tit to! into - r Mrs. Cucumber Green Took Her Children. that so comfortably and then Mrs. Cucumber Cu-cumber Gieen could take along some of her extra toys and treasures which she wanted the lady who hail asked them to see. The children all sat in the express cart during dinner. Mrs. Cucumber Green was given a very line place of honor next to the lady who had Invited In-vited them. The lady was so sweet, with white, white hair, and a little cap on the top of her head, and n hig thick, nestling kind of black dress. and funny brooches and a watch with so many trinkets hanging from it. And the lady said, when her mother suggested she had had enough : "She can eat all she wants on Thanksgiving day." That was such a lovely thing to say And thVy had such good food to eat. Sarah, the lady's ook. was a wonderful won-derful one for making everything. They had soup and turkey ami turkey dressing and cranberry sauce and two kinds of potatoes and squash and stewed corn and celery and nuts and pumpkin pie and home-made ire cream and Sarah's delirious sponge cake. After dinner was over ilu lady's family talked iv'tli Mrs. Cucumber Green's family, and .Mrs. Cuc-umber ' Green talked with the lady. She was so miili Interested in ev-oryibing ev-oryibing Mrs. Curuniher fli-een hail to how her. All afternoon they talked, and .Mrs. Cucumber Creen told how she lirniigin up her family and how well they wee and how good hey were and of the poc ins they knew to recite, mid of the games they played and the walks they took, and of what tliey saw and of what they were hoping to receive for Christmas. It was the most beautiful al'ternonn Mrs. Cucumber Green ever had. It was just getting dark when they left. And as Mrs. Cucumber Creen walked ahead of the family, puping her express cart with her children, the crisp cold air danced around her cliceKs and the coo, fresh breezes whispered in her ears: "We can tell you've had a good time." |