New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22

| I wonder how many of the little know why
keep Thanksgiving Day? wonder how many
merely think of Il day on which one
| has no lessons but unlimited turkey and cranberry
sauce and many kinds of pie? sure 1 hope
that all my little readers know quite well all about
it but I am going to tell them about one small
boy who did notl
HIS name was Jack-Jack Rennard. You would
have said that Jack suited him II you had seen
his rogl1ish face, with its merry brown eyes and
its clustering curls scattered over the broad white
brow, and his dimpled hands. always in dirt and
mischief For Jack was the youngest or large
family and his poor, widowed mother had TO Work
so hard at washing to I'LL four small mouths-l
mean the mouths of four small people, the mouths
were Of the usual size-that she had no time TO
teach her children very much OF what sne herseh
knew which very little to start WITH 30 you
see it was no wonder that Jack. who at the age
OF eight had begun to gather his education from
what he saw and heard around him. thought that
the last Thursday in November was soeiy ana
simply day on which it behooved everybody 10
get an excellent dinner.
7, ,ya. the day before Thanksgiving Day. Mary
and Daisy and Frank and Jack aged twelve and
ten and nine and eight If you want 10 Know" nau
left the school with the joyful consciousness lhd'
tbev would only see II once again that week They
were not looking forward very much to the next
a. Iacl, and Frank because they were intent on
a game Of marbles; Mary and Daisy because tiiey
were fully acquainted with the resources OF Ia1et
with the lack OF resources. OF the pantry II was
mill
<rort yard No one else near them, as thelr
mother had gone home with some washlng'
.n1a1ua Claws mothers bought big turkey
said Daisy, suddenly.
Mary nodded. Frank looked up ,,.,,, ..,,
"A turkey" he sald' resl0'A~1''
zen taste better" sighed Mary. But II lio'Le.
GETS her money for the washins' maSOe S
half a one" ,,,9,. de-
whats Thanksgiving Day for any"ay ~
in
nothing to be thankful for -. q. ba
"NThv-it's for-oh, it's for-oh, there's got - Oo
q THANKSGIVING Day, same as there gu =,
Christmas Day. don't you see! lepileu no -
sister. slipping quickly from the unknown 70 'ie
,oo,r lSbe felt competent to explain Chrls'inas1
.eJve keen Christmas because-oh' because every
one does It's a day when you go TO chuich anu
have plum pudding -. ,5 Frank
Have plum pudding at church! 0iie
.'yVhv they never save me any ,
You silly" answered ms eloer siS'e1' ~
no one eats in church. -,
..Thev do too" retorted Frank VINO was sI'en
to contradiction when an opportunity 0ieIeu
saw them - - -
vice when they do that. You're dreadful ignorant
Frank You knSW Just n95angd Dasy IF we've
no turkey what have we got TO De thanhIu iot res
elancing eagerly from one to the other. The word
turkey had reused his MIND from lts , 5
Of unlimited mar6es ana no" ne S4'
no ino MI SS Ne aiWavs said "turkry for turkey
though his sisters declared 1t was the harder
word to say OF the two -. =. - -. . .,,r,,o,,
No snapped Daisy. But II VS. hdo d tul AeS
we should be thankful . ., ., a.
That sounds very much the same. struck IN
Frank, puzzled. . ",cov..
amt got the turkey =, -, 49,, :.
''If we was thankful. we should have turkry,
murmured Jack. his merry eyes quite sober Den
Here's mother!" cried Mary. springng UP. "Oh.
No. said the mother, sadly BE thankful you .,
can have hot biscuits and tea. There's some don
have that much" -,
TO get in wood. and then told Mary to set the
table for supper. Mary annexed Daisys services.
and Jack left alone. -.
He slipped out of the gate and walked down the
village until he came TO the shop where the
turkeys hung. He looked at them criucaIIy. "A
rnurmured. Then he walked boldly into the shop
The butcher very busy for the store was fun.
whose dress was trimmed with soft brown Iur. Jack
knew IL soft, for he stroked IT
II is quite thankful he SAID aloud. .,,.
and softened. The minister's pretty daughter loved
children.
down to him. you quite thankful? What for7''
"A turkry-a little one answered JACK You
Don't YOU know what else to be thankful torr'
asked she Don't you know that We are thankful
for ell our good things-the sunshine and the rain
and the corn and the many good Things our Father
Jack shook his curly head.
IT is not thankful for RAIN" he said Can have
"A furksy?' said the butcher. coming up "oh.
you're widow McGint's child. I know. Where's
Jack stared. 'T hasn't got no money" he said
81 is thankful
butcher who had turned a possibly unthankfuI
but moneyed. customer-but by the young woman
"You shall have your TURKEY she cried But