Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-11-13

'nicAcu Nuuu NC tAStAcutt eu1 t'N SUI
ug always helped out the dinner wonder
'ully. They egreed not to tell their moth
II anything about it till the time came,
but to Just draw her out into the room in
her big chair. " for a change" and have
the uner ia ,le standing there, with all
the good things upon it, and the minister
waiting beside il to ask the blessing.
Sunday was delightful day for Nan.
cy. She and Kit had ginger cakes to nib.
BILE at all day long. aud JOhuy cracked a
pan full Of hickory nuts and picked out
the goodies for their especial benefit
and they @ked at all the pictures in his
primary geography, just as long as they
pleased, aud had great fat doll baby,
made out of pillow and Johny made
them two great long panoramas on ribbon
paper, and let them !oOk over his shoulder,
while he worked at the pictures with his
stubby old lead pencil. Aud you just
ought to have seen those panormas! One
was The house that Jack built" with
the cat, and the dog, and the COW with
the crumpled horn, aud all the rest in one
long procession, and the maiden all iorlorn
had chiguon that was perfectly fearful
to look upon, and nose almost as long as
her arm. Johny's specially was noses al
ways. The longer he made the noses, the
fuuuier they were, to his mind. The 9th
er panorama was the Garden OF Eden,
with an introducing view of chaos, look
ing like a huge brush heap, and I
picture Of Eve, dressed up elegantly ii
founces, holding out to Adam liitl
branch with an apple at the end of it
aud Adam happened to be so much small
|, er than she was, that it looked exactl
like a woman going to switch her littl
f boy. But Johnny and Davy thought
was all magnificent and appropriate 70
, Sunday amusement.
, Rob was up bright and early Monda
t morning, ready to go to his work, an
Sadie wrapped Nancy snugly in shaw
9e st sT% %efS for a%Gt h@ 'H %e gary and dhSf t
!. one day in the midst of love and care ha
;, wonderfully frightened up her puny fac
But it would have done your hea
e good to see Sadie the day before Thank
giying. She die such wonderful things
y tho way of baking you might have iancl
h the mantle of some old New England co
y had suddenly fallen upon her. and Oh
IL her mother called out of the bedroom,
ne Sadie, what are you puttering arou
ed that cooking stove all day fort U
would think you were baking for dol
J ton party. l know that cake must
ID browning just right. l can tell by
ng SMELL"
Use Sadie stopped at the minieter's on
to way up to the store after cinnamon
OF invited HIM to take dinner with her;
'ut the poor, despoudert man was SO plea
ner at the sight of the round, eager face 81
I've ino I'D at him, that he almost laughed
VS. loud, and said,
old Why, yes: III come! I'm veryg
L'l' you thought of me-"
When she was gone he sat down,
'"e the surprised, pleased smile still hinge
i'no on his face, and began to count over
I'M things that he ought to be thankful
- and by and by he found himself humi
an ! an old Thanksgiving anthem, cit is
'''s to give thanks unto the i
ro'' and to sing praises unto Thy nj
O, Most Highest" And the dear old
ign' words and music filled his heart wi
r'e strange warmth; and presently he G.
"'N to bis houskeeper,
lneir Ruth Ruth believe | shall pl
'hen a Thanksgiving sermon to morrow.
VIC. .S everybody you see."
an Then they both told everybody
ln'eo I saw, and somehow the news. that
Li''y were really to have a Thanksgiving SOL
'uag kindled up the chilly church-going
ppea of Budgeton, and they said, one to .
essed
er, W
va do let us give the preacher som'
to be thankful for And that very
noon they brought him provisions
- ~. enough good hickory wood to last til
. New Years, besides an elegant new
,asket coat.
mon. Rob came home the night befol
new great day, Of course And what
md Of suppose came walking comPoseu'y
dfully the road in front OF him' anu SUPP
early the gate as II shea Always '''ou
,ulan't Net Nancy. Dear, no. But a glo
sadie COW, with mild eyes and beautiful
mend, horns. She was a prese"''ooa'''
fingers strange man, who had come from a
little the widest OF the west 10 h"u ''' :
ter's baby, and that baby proved tc
they body more nor lees 'nah Naa0y
Sadie And when he found out how kind