Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-30
Regetta's [ Thanksg sgiving

Regetta's iThanksgiVin
Il just wish there wasn't any Thanks
giving day, just do"
.Why do you wish thai, Regetta?"
Just because ] do. Mean old raisins
topick and thiBgs.to chop alt,Ls TO cnt
and slice. and such D tinle with cooking
snd dishihg ups y i y
ais that all 7"
Dotty stopped slieing citron for mo-
ment and stood looking eff through the
window toward the gray clouds and lhe
shiyering trees, but was not Sinking ef
either Of them.
All? Deary me! that's enough; pies
and cakes and all sorts of things to help
make. and boiling and baking and fuss
ing to do, and as TO the thanking part, 1
don't see, much to thank tori alwal S
stewing at a coOk-stove, or scrubbing up
a floor. Christmas is different from
Thanksgiving, when people get presents
after the cooking is over; but Thanks
gisingl goodness, graciOusl Some peo-
pie might like II who have something t.
be thankful for. but I'-and she tUssed
her saucy brown head on one side, anG
threw the raisins she had been picking,
with jerk, into the bowl waiting TO re-
ceiye them, and also over the table and
floor, for what could be expected but
butthat the raisihs would fly about
when they were pitched aud tossed in
such fashion?
did you ever see the like of t?' Re
getta commenced again, "even the raisIns
Try to torment me; I'd like to know
what have to thank fOr?".
s''MamHna says we ought TO be thank
ful that. We have the raisins TO fix"
Hear itl Listen to it! Does she say
Peggy Hopkins ought TO be thankful for
the rheumatism 7"
Mamma says Peggy Hopkins is COZ
tented, but don't see what that has to
do with the matterH
"StapidlI Peggy Hopkins rheuma-
tism keeps her lame in the leg SO she
cannot sport around aud enjoy herself.
What's the difference if i. it's ,raisins,-
pumpkin and eitron, or if it's rheuma-
tism that keeps you squatted in a corn,
er hanging oveg a hre.-
"RegettaiH We have the nice things
TO eat after We have helped to make
them, but Peggy-oh! what pain she
has. and nothing to eat but what people
send her"
We'll, she don't have to boil herself
to desth cooking 1t somebody else does!
fs for her and as to paitI, T.. guess she's
too old and tough to feel much of that"
and Regetta laughed at what she thought
bit of pleasantly. chusckling. to herself
AS she tossed the raisins she had been
gathering up Into the bowl. 1i
"Oh, Regsttai" The little girl turned
half around that the tears quiyerIng in
her eyes might be unseen.
"'Oh, RegettsT What has Regetta
got to be thankful for? 1? What does she
do the week through but stew over
the pans, and there's nothing but
misery anyway, for fathers lost his
work, and Billy's spasms are getting
and she ought TO be milking H. ~plenty.sA
But" begun Doty, trying to say some
of the thiBgs that we're half shaped in
her thoughts, but fathersi isnIb dead. iik =
AHstice Bruen's, and we've got two COWS
yet to give quarts and quarts, and don't
you think it's nicer to helpzmake good
things than never to have any to eat?
know it's bad about Billy, but mamma
says God knows.s y HIssJfg&a
She stoppedi flushed with the effort
she had made to tell her thoughts. There
Hns 4 low rap at the door, and the call,
Come in,r from Regetta, brought Il
small figure, scantily clad. shivering IN
at the kitchen door. aarA ii -sa' '7s1 b.
"You've got fire, haven't you 2" said
the little newcomer. nesting up close To
the red-bot stove. where the pots were
bubbling over. and the smell OF good
things was very strong.
i "Firef We'll, if eyerl Fire? Whom
the pind Is blasting like that outside,
who wouldn't have ire !" - -.-f,-r
Everybody has it that can. suppose,
but you know it-takes so much wood to
keep il bufLing allCthet time, some people
cannot. Tim-that's my brother-and
me, got a great; monstrous lot yesterday,
but nobody wants to 0urn it all right up
In minute" 80. ....-.
10 'tDon't your father get the wood ?"
said Regetta, looking up as she knelt on
one knee, giving the last poke 10 the log
with which she was refreshing the fire
There's nobody but US father is
dead:'o ,.-a1-i'I -siv5 G..l.a..sE s..-., d /.
I Jim Stryker Is good to cutand haul
wood. why don't your mother. get him
10 do il; are your woods near? ?"i1 -. =
Judge Swift lets US go TO his woods
for faggots and things; why, you know,
we've got no woods, aud as to mother
getting ANYBODY, why mothers got Us,
you know" - 80 ~ ''...' -
..Graciousl Barbary Bremen that's
your name, isn't it RI got gou?"
Eyes, and she says of all the things
she has to be thankful for, she is most
thankful for us" f
IaoirThings obe thankful. for? It's you
who live at the old Swift Lodge, that's
all tumbled down but one room?"
"Yes." .u9ie - 5ls =. ......
"a aAnd.yeur mother broke her arm?"
sAWfiy, yes, but it's only 'lrer left, and
only think how much worse it would
have been had ID been her rightla Moth
er says that mercies are. all the time
coming to her" I-i- 80 :, -. - :. =
Does your mother spectacles p
"No; yes-sometimes;" looking. up