The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-11-22
4 TILD-G00sE CHASE.


Tbanksgiying! when Eme heard it She knew
very well what it meant,
For always MT Grandma Splcer $ thanksgiving
day had heen spent tt l
Witlfaunts and uncles and cousins, dogs, cats
And nuts and apples, frohesome gamesi hnd
many Il glad surprise.
Is oFanksgiyin' day to-morrer2' over and over
Enie would ask her parents, begging them to
How many days and weeks must pass, and en-
denyor to make il clear tHf
Nhy Thanks1ivingday. at grandmas came
only once in year.
The Governors proclamation, for the good OF
the Nation planned, 8
Little Ellie was much too young and too Tightly
But she cOmprehendeu the-mehnlHg OF pfepa
For Grandma Spicer's; and no one could have
amore thankful heart.
But this year the floods had broken away the
barriers strong,
And over the roads and the meadows went
roaring ana rushing along,
Bearing away the bridges and whatever else
there might he
In their track; and the narrow streamlet
stretched out to Il great wide sea.
There we're lives lost, too, in the torrent that
was all the while being fed
mantle Of gloom o'erhead,
And as soon as the sun shone out again the
dismal troop to disperse,
Men gathered in solemn crowds, and said
Srhank God that it is no worse."
Effe had heard her father say, as he brushed
away a tear,
That he wouldn't be able to travel about very
much this year
And the little maiden thought twould be a
bitter dr0pin her cup
II The visit TO Grandma Snicer's wns to he niv-
nup.
For how could they keep Thanksgiving all
alone ny themselves
Even with lots Of pies and things spread out
en- the PANTRY shevcs3
And how could Grandma Spicer give thanks in
proper way
II none Of THEM went to see her, to help her
keep the dayt
Thus reasoned. the little maiden, who grew
very sad and selate,
AS ii puzzle were twisting itself about in her
curly pate
And as she'd been always cheerful, and rather
TO 1omps Inclined
Twas feared that her fathers trouble had
worried the baby mind.
Twas the day before Thanksgiving, as search
ing the place around, gs
From eurrct to cellar from barn to shed, little
Ellie could not be found,
And all the treasures that had been swept
away in the vast abyss,
Though grievous to lose, could not compare
With q loss SO great as this.
She was surely stolen from them like poor lit
tie Charley Ross
And Lizzie Selden God pity the bearers of
eucha crossl N8 f4
They sought for her in the dismal swamp, and
on by the lonely church;
They looked in the we'll and as night came on.
with lanterns kept up the search
Ina village some ten miles distant was Grand
n
And the way to it was over a rugged and lone
ana Eaie's father and mother drove over to
teli tnelr sorrow,
And the reason why in fasting ana PRAYER
they have TO spend the morrow.
But Grandmas eyes had a twinkle in them n
she sOherly said;
wei, now you're 50 worn and weary, you'd
-, hetter 20 right TO bed:
Ih0se only are worthy the sweet who have
tasted the bitter drink,
ana y may be the dawn is breaxing--is nearer
now thanyou think"
They closed the door Of their chamber, heavy
and sick at heart;
IN tne Il, festival Of the morrow determined to
And turning they saw--what was it?-the old
fashioned trlIndle-bed
any ~ mere asleep on the pillow, their own lit
EiIel Eilie" the mother screamed; ~ have
found my child at last"
Elhel Elhe!P the father cried his fears onrn
ing thick and fast; - se"is COM
ana all that The naughty maiden said, as she
N, quietly sucked her thumb. - 9''e
was " It's Fanksgivin'-day to-morrer and
gran muyyer said you'd come"
~, OF soul above W 'ii'iis
nc ,ldl s,lsgs Iearth, TO the thought of Gods
All Goodness az and Infinite love:
I Ihe group rehearse, e1''oe
arn ,oeks n dear ones face and feels there
are trials that might be worse ~
and when Efie has told her story tbe t,.o,,ti,
:, some little elf!- ae 'rohple-
HOW she started all right for grandma,s ana
suddenly lost herself, s'N'ii'' ? anu
Aud how scared she was with poa,,,, a io,,,.,..
NJ. kiss and embrace toFihs
Ihey forgive the little .,poosia,, .ta4 -4.
this wild-goose chase tiae started
-dosepline Pollard, III HG,pe,,s y-n,,,, 1,e,.,,,.
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