[29] From "For the Children's Hour," Milton Bradley Company.
AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING[30]
By Rose Terry Cooke.
A long story about a family of hardy New England pioneers in Revolutionary days. It will be most enjoyed by the older children.
ile in, Hannah. Get right down 'long o' the clock, so's to kinder shore it up. I'll fix in them pillers t'other side on't, and you can set back ag'inst the bed. Good-bye, folks! Gee up! Bright. Gee! I tell ye, Buck."
"Good-bye!" nodded Hannah, from the depths of the old calash which granny had given her for a riding-hood, and her rosy face sparkled under the green shadow like a blossom under a burdock leaf.
This was their wedding journey. Thirty long miles to be travelled, at the slow pace of an oxcart, where to-day a railroad spins by, and a log hut in the dim distance.