Contents

The kingdom of the greedy / P. J. Stahl -- Thankful / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving mascot / Sheldon C. Stoddard -- Mistress Esteem Elliott's molasses cake / Kate Upson Clark -- The first Thanksgiving / Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball -- Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum / Winthrop Packard -- How we kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Wishbone Valley / R. K. Munkittrick -- Patem's salmagundi / E. S. Brooks -- Miss November's dinner party / Agnes Carr -- The visit / Maud Lindsay -- The story of Ruth and Naomi / Adapted from the Bible -- Bert's Thanksgiving / J. T. Trowbridge -- A Thanksgiving story / Miss L. B. Pingree -- John Inglefield's Thanksgiving / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- How Obadiah brought about a Thanksgiving / Emily Hewitt Leland -- The white turkey's wing / Sophie Swett -- The Thanksgiving goose / Fannie Wilder Brown -- An English dinner of Thanksgiving / George Eliot -- A novel postman / Alice Wheildon -- Ezra's Thanksgivin' out west / Eugene Field -- Chip's Thanksgiving / Annie Hamilton Donnell -- The master of the harvest / Mrs. Alfred Gatty -- A Thanksgiving dinner / Edna Payson Brett -- Two old boys / Pauline Shackleford Colyar -- A Thanksgiving dinner that flew away / Hezekiah Butterworth -- Mon-daw-min / H. R. Schoolcraft -- A mystery in the kitchen / Olive Thorne Miller -- Who ate the dolly's dinner? / Isabel Gordon Curtis -- An old-fashioned Thanksgiving / Rose Terry Cooke -- 1800 and froze to death / C. A. Stephens.