Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know,?by Various, Edited by Asa Don Dickinson

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Title: Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
Author: Various
Editor: Asa Don Dickinson
Release Date: November 23, 2006 [eBook #19909]
Language: English
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What Every Child Should Know Library
GOOD CHEER STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
Edited by
ASA DON DICKINSON
Editor of "The Children's Book of Christmas Stories," Etc.

[Illustration: "When we rounded the last patch of scrub pines and came upon the long gray house fairly blazing with light ... the effect was stunning."]

Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc. Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine" 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York
Copyright, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindness of the Century Company, Ginn & Co., the J. L. Hammett Company, Harper & Brothers, the Houghton, Mifflin Company, the J. B. Lippincott Company, the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, the Outlook Company, the Perry Mason Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, and others, who have granted permission to reproduce herein selections from works bearing their copyright.

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.)
*The Kingdom of the Greedy. By P. J. Stahl
Thankful. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot. By Sheldon C. Stoddard
[dagger]Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake. By Kate Upson Clark
The First Thanksgiving. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball
[dagger]Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum. By Winthrop Packard
How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown. By Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Wishbone Valley. By R. K. Munkittrick
Patem's Salmagundi. By E. S. Brooks
Miss November's Dinner Party. By Agnes Carr
*The Visit. By Maud Lindsay
The Story of Ruth and Naomi. Adapted from the Bible
Bert's Thanksgiving. By J. T. Trowbridge
*A Thanksgiving Story. By Miss L. B. Pingree
[dagger]John Inglefield's Thanksgiving. By Nathaniel Hawthorne
How Obadiah Brought About a Thanksgiving. By Emily Hewitt Leland
The White Turkey's Wing. By Sophie Swet
*The Thanksgiving Goose. By Fannie Wilder Brown
[dagger]An English Dinner of Thanksgiving. By George Eliot
A Novel Postman. By Alice Wheildon
[dagger]Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West By Eugene Field
*Chip's Thanksgiving. By Annie Hamilton Donnell
[dagger]The Master of the Harvest. By Mrs. Alfred Gatty
*A Thanksgiving Dinner. By Edna Payson Brett
Two Old Boys. By Pauline Shackleford Colyar
A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away. By Hezekiah Butterworth
[dagger]Mon-daw-min. By H. R. Schoolcraft
A Mystery in the Kitchen. By Olive Thorne Miller
*Who Ate the Dolly's Dinner? By Isabel Gordon Curtis
[dagger]An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving. By Rose Terry Cooke
1800 and Froze to Death. By C. A. Stephens

THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THANKSGIVING STORIES
THE KINGDOM OF THE GREEDY
BY P. J. STAHL.
TRANSLATED BY LAURA W. JOHNSON.
This fairy tale of a gormandizing people contains no mention of Thanksgiving Day. Yet its connection with our American festival is obvious. Every one who likes fairy tales will enjoy reading it.
The country of the Greedy, well known in history, was ruled by a king who had much trouble. His subjects were well behaved, but they had one sad fault: they were too fond of pies and tarts. It was as disagreeable to them to swallow a spoonful of soup as if it were so much sea water, and it would take a policeman to make them open their mouths for a bit of meat, either boiled or roasted. This deplorable taste made the fortunes of the pastry cooks, but also of the apothecaries. Families ruined themselves in pills and powders; camomile, rhubarb, and peppermint trebled in price, as well as other disagreeable remedies, such as castor ---- which I will not name.
The King of the Greedy sought long for the means of correcting this fatal passion for sweets, but even the faculty were puzzled.
"Your Majesty," said the great court doctor, Olibriers, at his last audience, "your people look like putty! They are incurable; their senseless love for good eating will bring them all to the grave."
This view of things did not suit the King. He was wise, and saw very plainly that a monarch without subjects would be but a sorry king.
Happily, after this utter failure of the doctors, there came into the mind of His Majesty a first-class idea: he telegraphed for Mother Mitchel, the most celebrated of all pastry cooks. Mother Mitchel soon arrived, with her black cat, Fanfreluche, who accompanied her everywhere. He was an