Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

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

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Title: Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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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