The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-20
NAMES Thanksgiving.

couldn't have been in the nursery two
minutes without seeing that Mrs. Maria
was all dressed up in her best real silk:
and that the rubber dolly had been hay
ing splendid bath, and looked Just as
good as new.
Mrs. Maria was Mamie's best doll. It
seems to me that she ought to have had
some name after the Maria part: but /
really don't believe she ever had.
But the dolls didn't begin to be all.
There was Mamie's table out in the mid
die of the floor; and there, too, was the
little tea-set with the gold band round
the edges, and when that set was out of
the ssw-dust box, you could be very sure
something was going to happen. And
that something was Thanksgiving /
There was the little white cloth, and the
party caster with al, the shoppers gomez
and the real cranberry sauce, and the
the-Oh, everything you could almost
think of. Mrs. Marie and the other dol
y-'he rubber one, you kEow-were
already seated at the table with their
blbs on, and Mamie was just going to
help them to the cranberry sauce when
she jumped up suddenly and said:
"Why, where's the babye'
The baby was the little china doll in
the long, long dresses with real tucks at
the bottom
SOB! There she is in the window. I
put her there to be out of the way when
[ was sweeping the playhouse "
Mamie ran to the window to get the
baby and was just going back to the real
cranberry sauce, when she saw little
girl standing on the sidewalk way down
in the street below.
How cold it looked out there, and how
cold the little girl looked, too, with q
shawl not half big enough.
''She dosn't look much like Thanks
giving" said Mamie, to herself. 81
thought Thanksgiving was for every body
in the world"
She nodded, "How do you dos" to the
little girl, and the little girl nodded back
again. The wind came through a cracaas
by the side of the window, and, On how
cold it was!
''Dear me- said Mamia, 81 really don't
believe she's going to have the least bit
of Thanksgiving. [ tell you what; III
give her Thanksgiving, all myseIfl"
She put down the baby, and after tel
ling Mrs. Maria and the rubber dolly not
to eat single thing till she came back,
away she ran to the sitting-room.
80 mamma, mamma, there's little
girl out dools all alone without any
Thanksgiving. Can't I give her onee"
Mamie drew mamma to the window.
'She does look real cold, doesn't she,"
said mamma.
20 mamma, can't give her a Thanks
giving? Dosen't everyone ought to have
ones"
The. very next minute mamma and
Mamie were at the front door.
'Come in, little girl said mamma:
''are YOU very cold9"
.Yes'm, but it's Thanksgiving and I've
been watching the big turkey hanging
by his legs at the butchers, and it was so
big that it's nose most came to the
ground"
'.But I'm going to have some real
cranberry sauce in the nursery, AMI q
real table, too. Don't you want to comet"
asked Mamie.
"May II" and the cold little girl looked
up into mammals face.
Yes" said mamma, ewe'u all have
Thanksgiving together <.
So they took off the little girls shas. :
and went upstairs to the nursery. Then
mamma went down to the kitchen and
staid long, long time, and when she
came up such lot of things as she had
for that Thanksgiving dinner! A real
little chicken all roasted brown, and some
real gravy, and celery, and round mince
pie! What do you think of that! And |
the other little girl had Mamie's best !
rocking-chair, too, and ate her dinner with |
Mamie's red mittens on because her hands .
were SO cold
What splendid Thanksgiving that
ives! For when the little girl went home
she had new warm sacque and a basket
with lots of things to carry with her, and
Mamie went to bed, because the blue eyes
wouldn't keep open any longer, she said
to mamma:
mamma, I should know this Is
Thanksgiving even it we didn't have
turkey and cranberry sauce"
How do you know, puss9" said
ooh, because--because I'm Just as
happy as ] can be-" said Mamie
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