“I’d be thankful as a rule,
If you liked to go to school.”
The Waste-Basket Fairy said,
“I’d be thankful since you ask it
If you would notice me—the basket.”
The Good-Mannered Fairy sang,
“We will be thankful when Dorothy’s able
To keep her elbows off the table.”
At that, Dorothy Marjorie Ann danced and capered about for she had no idea before, that she had anything to do with making the Wee People thankful, and every hour it grew nearer, and nearer Thanksgiving Day.