CONTENTS
Reading edition
(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
† 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