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]
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]

THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF
THANKSGIVING STORIES