Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-25
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THAT all my little readers know qhIe
l,gcn ali about it. but | am going to tell
them about one small hey who did not!
His name was Jack-Jack Rennard'
You would have said that Jack" suited
him if YOU hai seen his rogush face, with
its merry brown eyes and Its clustering
crls scattered over the broad, Whlte
brow. and his dimpied hands, always IN
dirt and mischief! For Jack was the
Youngest Of a large family, and his poor,
widowed mother had to work so hard at
washing to fill four small mouths
mean the mouths of four small people,
the mouths we're of the usual slze-that
/ she had no time to teach her children
very much of what she herself knew,
which was very little to start with So,
YOU see. it was no wonder that Jack. who
at the ace of had begun to gather his
education from what he saw and heard
around him. thought that the last Thurs
/ day in November was solely and simply
/ a dav on which it behooved everybody
! to get IN excellent dinner
! Ii was the day before Thanksgiving
/ dav. Mary and Daisy and Frank and
Jack aged IL and 10 and and s, if you
want to know had left the school with
the iovful consciousness that they would
only see it once again that week. They
were not looking forward very much 10
The next day-Jack and Frank because
they were intent on a game Of marbles;
Mary and Daisy because they were fully
acquainted with the resources or rather
with the lack of resources, of the pantry.
1t was mild, cloudy afternoon. and they
sat out in the front yard. No one else
was near them, as their mother had gone
home with some washing.
Nellie Clay's mothers bought big
/ turkey" said Daisy, suddenly.
Mary nodded Frank looked up.
a turkey" he said, regretfully. It'll
smell good, won't it,"
"lt'll taste better" sighed Mary but
if mother gets her money for the wash
ing, maybe she'll get half a one"
whats Thanksgiving day for, any
wavf" demanded Daisy. II amt thank
Jul, l don't see nothing to be thankful
for"
"Why-it's for-oh, it's for-oh, there's
got to be a Thanksgiving day same as
| there's got to be Christmas day, don't
You seer" replied her elder sister. slip
ping quickly from the unknown to the
| known (She felt competent to explain
/ Christmas) I'VE keep Christmas because
oh, because, every one does. It's day
when you 60 TO church and have plum
pudding
Have plum pudding at church?" cried
Frank. why, they never gave me any"
You silly" answered his elder sister
at home--no one eats in church"
They do, too" retOrted Frank, who
was given to contradiction when an OPP
portunity offered Il saw them"
Hush said Mary, scandalized
That's a service when they do that
You're dreadful ignorant, Frank. You
know just nothing at ALL
Il amt thankful" reiterated Daisy
IF we've no turkey, what have we got to
be thankful for? ?"
They none of them noticed Jacks
brown eyes glancing eagerly from one to
the other The word turkey" had reused
his mind from its dreams of unlimited
! marbles, and now he sat listening and
| trying to understand.
If we was thankful, should we have a
tmkryy" he inquired He always said
"tmkry' for turkey. though his sisters
declared it was the harder word to say
ot the two.
NO snapped Daisy, But if we had
/ turkey we should be thankful"
THAT sounds very much the same"
struck in Frank. puzzled.
ut am't the same, though cried
/ Daisy. Cause we amt got the turkey"
If we was thankful. we should have
! tmkry.' mmmured Jack, his merry eyes
/ quite sober Den Use thankful"
Here's mother" cried Mary, spring
! IN, ho,.
half turkey:
NO" said the mother, sadly. BE
! thankful you can have hot biscuits and
tea There's some don't have that much"
AS She passed into the cottage she
called TO Frank to get in some wood. and
then told Mary to set the table for sup
( per. Mary annexed Daisy's services. and
I Jack was left alone.
He slipped out OF The gate and walked
! down the village street until he came TO
the shop where the turkeys hung. lie
/ looked al them critically. "A little one
would do, hat hig one is better" he
murmrcd, Then he walked boldly into
the shop
/ The butcher was very busy. for the
store was full Jack paused in front of
/ a very pretty Young woman whose dress
was trimmed with soft brown fur. Jack
/ knew 1t was soft for he stroScd it.
II is quite thankful" he said aloud.
/ She looked down quickly. and her face
/ frightened and softened. The minister's
/ pretty daughter loved children.
What do You say. dearT she asked.
STOPPING down to him. You are quite
/ thankfulf What for?"
/ a tmkry-a little one" answered
. L., ell