The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-25
SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR.

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Il just wish there WASH any Thanks
giving day, l just do"
why do you wish that, Regetta?'
Just because l do. Mean old rails
ms to pick, and things to chop and to
cut and to slice, and such time with
cooking and dishing up"
''ls that all?' Dotty stopped slicing
citron for a moment and stood looking
off through the window toward the gray
clouds and the shivering trees, but was
not thinking of either of them.
"All? peary me! that's enough; pies
and cakes and all sorts of things to
help make. and boiling and bak NO and
fussing to do, and as to the thanking part
/ don see much to thank for. ALWAYS
stewing at a cook-stove, or scrubbing
up floor Christmas is different from
Thanksgiving, when people getpresents
after the cooking is over; but Thanks
giving! goodness, gracious! Some peo-
pie might like it who have something
to be thankful, for, but F'-and she
tossed her saucy brown head on one
side, and threw the rails rs she had been
picking, with jerk, into the bowl wait
ing TO receive them, and also over the
table and the floor, for what could be
expected but that the raisins would fly
about when they were pitched and
tossed in such fashion?
did you ever see the like of it?''
Regetta commenced again, ''even the
raisins just try to torment me; I'd like
to know what have to thank for?''
"Mamma says we ought to be thank
full that we have the raisins to fix
"Hear it! Listen to it! Does she
say Peggy Hopkins ought to be thank
full for the rheumatism"
Mamma says Peggy Hopkins is con
tented, but | don't see what that has
to do with the M ,ter?"
Stupid! Peggy Hopkins rheuma
tism keeps her lame in the leg so she
cannot sport around and enjoy herself
What's the difference if it's raisins,
pumpkin and citron, or if it's rheuma.
tism that keeps you squatted in cor.
ner hanging over a tire?'
"Regetta. We have the nice thing
to eat after We have helped to maze
them, but Peggy-oh! what pain she
l''I7' 'Y'i" " eau '''' "H"' Pe"Pl'
Sen'i mo,,
" en- She uoI = nave 10 pom herse
~ .eaIh cooNllS ~ so!Iiepo''l Use zoe
u Ior ,5 Ier anu ~ 10 '''ln' guess she ;,
700 olu anu tough 20 ieei ihtch OF mat
and Regetta laughed at what she
thought Il bit of pleasantly, chuckline
10 herself as she tossed the ralslns Sht
had been gathering up into the bowl.
~ shan I do much thanking, at any
rate"
"Oh, Regetta, the little girl turned
half around that the teas quivering il
her eyes might be unseen.
"Oh, Regetta? What has Regett:
got to be thankful for? What does sh,
do the week through but stew over the
pans, and there's nothing but miser,
anyway. for fathers lost his work, anC
Bifv's spasms are getting worse. anc
the brindle cows zone dry. and sb,
ought to be milking PLENTY"
But" BEGUN Dottv. irving TO sa,
some of the tiino, tbatwcrp bglf shane,
in her thourbts lint tothor isn't dno,
ike Anstice Brnen.s and wave oot t1y,
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coll Come IN; from Rn~otto hrnnrh
small fionrr scantilv clad shiyer;n,
in at The jitcben door ~ ''''
You've cot fire hav'n' t vour' sal,
to the red bot stove where7 ,be rot
We're bubblino over an the smeIi 70 -