"Now that was what I call a Thanksgiving Day without a flaw!"
CHAPTER XVI
CANDY FOR THE FAIR
The Alcott School, which Mildred and Brownie attended, was going to give a Christmas fair. That is, they were going to have a big, beautiful fair to which everybody in town was to go and buy their Christmas presents, and afterward the money was to be given to the children's ward in the new hospital. Mildred and Brownie were on the candy committee, and, of course, they were much excited. They had to have so much candy for a whole town of people that they did not know where it was to come from.
"We could go around and ask for contributions," said Mildred to her mother; "but the trouble is that everybody in the school is doing that very thing, asking and asking and asking!"
"You might make a good deal of candy yourselves, and perhaps other people who would not care to buy quantities to give you, would make some too. Home-made candy always sells well."
"Miss Betty makes the loveliest pinoche!" said Brownie, thoughtfully.
"So she does. Suppose we ask her about planning to make candy at home."
Miss Betty had just come in from a meeting of her own committee on the fair, and was as interested as could be in the candy table.