The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-11-27
a THANKSGIVING STORY.
pY HARRIET PRESCOTT sporronp.

turkey on Thanksgiving Day. But
there seemed nothing else to do. They
had always had a turkey and Gran.
berry sauce and a mince pie before:
but now that the father was disabled
and there was only Mays little earn
mgs to go and come upon, they must
be content with a dinner of corned
beef. They did not have as good as
that every day, by 'auy means. But
what was corned beef, Tsm,4Powcrs
asked, beside a turkey stuffed with
buttered and peppered and mashed
potatoes; a great crisp, brown turkey,
sush as belongs TO Thanksgiving Day
of right.
Med Twombly's going to have tur-
key and ducks too, and a chicken pic,'
Tom said to his mother. "He's going
to have two turkeys. l saw them 90
lug in"
"Well, dear, we must make believe
our dinner tastes like turkey" she re-
piled. And if father is able to come
to the table, I'm sure that will make IL
Thanksgiving enough, turkey or no
turkey"
"Corned, beef FOR a man who's been
kept alive on gruel!' groaned Tom.
"Oh, We shall have some granum for
him"
otis real good, granum is" said lit.
tie Sue.
ut isn't turkey" said Tom.
"No, it isn't turkey" said Sue visit
fully.
well, dear, l wouldn't talk about it
any more," sand the mother, going on
with her work. ut would make your
father feel so if he knew you missed it
this way. And he feels bad enough at
the best"
"He wouldn't feel SO bad if he saw a
turkey on the table, just as always
, said Tom.
"There, there, that will do" said HI:
mother.
at isn't the turkey, just for the SAX
: of eating it." said Tom, contidentially
as he and Sue went out picking NJ
!, chips that afternoon. "It's becaus,
= it's part of thanksgiving; it's becahss
it doesn't seem Thanksgiving withou,
! it; it's because everybody else has one
Though the drumst,ck is awful nico-'
/, II like the wish bone BEST" pipeo
;, Sue.
Turkeys don't have a good wish
. bone like chikcns."
"But you can make hoppcrs out OF
them that hop all across the room,'
said Sue.
a "And the g,zzard chopped up in the
: gravy with hot potatoes Oh, l say
!. it's a shame to have corned beef on
Thanksgiving Day."
i. "Yes," sand Sue, "but corned beef is
:, good with cabbage, too"
That was too much for Tom-Sue
. not awake to her wrongs. 1.-The idea,'
n said he, "of your having to eat corneo
;, beef and go without turkey! You, al.
I, most a baby!'
SIN not almost a baby!' cried Sue
. Indignantly. I'm a great help to
mother! She says SO. I'm only a little
i smaller than you. And 1 guess l car
eat what the rest can, anyway. Sol
II mean,' SAID Tom, shat mother;
and girls should have nice things;'' ant
4 his mind reverted to the turkey goin,
into Ned Twombly's, to the duck
there, to the two turkeys. What di,
they want of two turkeys? Their,
were only four or five in the family
Were they going to kill themselve
eating? And if there was to be com
- pany, one turkey aid the ducks and
= chicken pie ought to be plenty. 1t onl,
y showed how unfair everything was
u Ned Twombly and his great, health,
= father and mother, and Jane, with til,
u two turkeys, aud he with his sick faith
y er. and his delicate sister Sue, and hi
y y tired mother, and poor May, with n,
y turkey ut all, with nothing but tina:
hard, salt beef, which he hated, at leas,
which he hated for Thanksgiving Day
y They might just as well have bakec
d beans-baked beans for Thanksgiving
e Day! How much better was Nee
IT Twombly than lie was, that Providence
!, should be so good to him? He WASH
: y any better! He whipped a boy hal,
y his size last week, and he told thu
- teacher a lie about it afterward
y Well, then, Toms thoughts ran on
u perhaps Ned's father was smarter
Bat lie wasn't any smarter; he ha,
never done a days work in his life
&c while his father had always worked
II And then Tom left the task of irwin,
10 to adjust the workings of the uniyers
to his n of justlce-only it still
seemed very unjust indeed, that Ne,
v Twombly should have two turkeys an,
9 he should have non at all. He ha,
f tried hard 70 rat c,n,o o,,o.J