American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-29
NAMES THANKSGIVING.

Something was going to happen. You
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 hav-
ing a splendid bath, and looked just as
good as new.
Mrs. Maria was Mamie's best doll. 1t
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 saw-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 all the shoppers gomez
and the real cranberry sauce, and the
the-Oh, every thing you could almost
think of. Mrs. Maria and the other
dolly-the rubber one. you know-were
already seated at the table with their
bibs on, and Mamie was just going to
help them to the cranberry sauce when
she jumped up suddenly and said,
Why, where's the baby?'
The baby was the little china doll in
the long. long dress; with real tucks at
the bottom.
"Oh! There she is in the window. l
put her there to be out of the way when
I was sweeping the baby-house.''
Mamie ran to the window to get the
baby, and was just going back to the
real cranberry sauce, when she saw a
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 a
shawl not half big enough.
"She doesn't look much like Thanks
giving" said Mamie, to herself. al
thought Thanksgiving was for every
body in the world
She nodded, How do you do?'' to
the little girl, and the little girl nodded
back again. The wind came through
crack by the side of the window, and,
Oh how cold it was!
Dear me- said Mamie, ct really
don't believe she's going to have the
least bit of Thanksgiving. l tell you
what: III give her Thanksgiving, all
myself!''
She put down the baby, and after
telling Mrs. Maria and the rubber dolly
not to eat single thing till she came
back, away she ran to the sitting-room.
go, mamma, mamma, there's little
girl out doors all alone without any
Thanksgiving. Can't give her one?"
Mamie drew mamma to the window.
"She does look real cold ,docsn t she, .
said mamma.
80 mamma, can't 1 give her a
Thanksgiving? Doesn't everyone ought
to have oneP''
The very next minute mamma and
Mamie were at the front door.
Come in, little girl,'' said mamma;
g are you very coldP''
Yes m; but it's Thanksgiving and
I've been watching the big turkey hang
ny iOS5o az tiiO ouOChCi D anu IL
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, and a
real table, too. Don't you want to
come?'' asked Mamie.
sMay IP'' and the cold little girl
looked up into Mamie's face.
IS Yes,'' said mamma, +" we'll all have
Thanksgiving together
So they took off the little girls shawl
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 a
round mince pie! What do you think
of thatp 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 coldl
What splendid Thanksgiving that
was! For when the little girl went
home she had new, warm sacque and
basket with lots of things to carry
with her, and when Mamie went to bed,
because the blue eyes wouldn't keep
open any longer, she said to mamma