PREFACE
The success of "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories" has encouraged the Editor to hope that a similar collection of stories about Thanksgiving would prove useful to parents, librarians, and teachers, and enjoyable to children.
Like the former book, this one is exactly what the title would indicate—a select collection of children's stories closely connected with our American festival.
The short descriptive note placed before each story will be of use in choosing a tale suited to one's audience in reading aloud.
May the present volume make as many friends as did its older brother!
CONTENTS
(Note.—The stories marked with a star (*) will be most enjoyed by younger children; those marked with a dagger (†) are better suited to older children.)
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* The Kingdom of the Greedy. By P. J. Stahl 3
Thankful. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 26
Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot. By Sheldon C. Stoddard 41
† Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake. By Kate Upson Clark 57
The First Thanksgiving. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball 67
† Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum. By Winthrop Packard 72
How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown. By Harriet Beecher Stowe 86
* Wishbone Valley. By R. K. Munkittrick 106
Patem's Salmagundi. By E. S. Brooks 115
Miss November's Dinner Party. By Agnes Carr 129
* The Visit. By Maud Lindsay 137
The Story of Ruth and Naomi. Adapted from the Bible 143
Bert's Thanksgiving. By J. T. Trowbridge 146
* A Thanksgiving Story. By Miss L. B. Pingree 157[x]
† John Inglefield's Thanksgiving. By Nathaniel Hawthorne 159
How Obadiah Brought About a Thanksgiving. By Emily Hewitt Leland 167
The White Turkey's Wing. By Sophie Swett 181
* The Thanksgiving Goose. By Fannie Wilder Brown 198
† An English Dinner of Thanksgiving. By George Eliot 203
A Novel Postman. By Alice Wheildon 209
† Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West. By Eugene Field 220
* Chip's Thanksgiving. By Annie Hamilton Donnell 232
† The Master of the Harvest. By Mrs. Alfred Gatty 235
* A Thanksgiving Dinner. By Edna Payson Brett 248
Two Old Boys. By Pauline Shackleford Colyar 254
A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away. By Hezekiah Butterworth 265
† Mon-daw-min. By H. R. Schoolcraft 276
A Mystery in the Kitchen. By Olive Thorne Miller 282
* Who Ate the Dolly's Dinner? By Isabel Gordon Curtis 296
† An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving. By Rose Terry Cooke 299
1800 and Froze to Death. By C. A. Stephens 328
