School Record Volume 6, No. 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...and chicken-pie. Folks that don't get hungry can't be thankful very hard. Boys can get thankful, but some of them are too selfish to be thankful. A boy that don't feel a warm spot just above his stomach and a kind of choky feeling in his throat, when he thinks of all the good things his folks give him, and the kind things his friends do for him, and the care God has over him, is too selfish to live in this grand country of ours. He should be sent in the ship " Selfishness" over the ocean of " Ingratitude" to the island of "Bristles " in "Hog" archipelago, and there let him live a week with a set of fellows just like himself, and if that does not cure him he'd better be hung there to scare sharks down to the ocean bed.--Moderator. ELSIE'S THANKSGIVING. (To be recited by a little girl holding a doll.) Dolly, it's almost Thanksgiving, do you know what that means, my dear? Well, I couldn't expect it; you haven't been with us a year. And you came from my auntie from Paris, far over the wide blue sea, And you'll keep your first Thanksgiving, my beautiful dolly, with me. I'll tell you about it, my darling, for grandma's explained it all, So that I understand why Thanksgiving always comes late in the fall, When the nuts and the apples are gathered and the work in the field is done, And the fields, all reaped and silent, are asleep in the autumn sun. It is then that we praise Our Father, who sends the rain and the dew; Whose wonderful loving kindness is every morning new; Unless we'd be heathen, Dolly, or worse, we must sing and pray, And think about good things, Dolly, when we keep Thanksgiving Day. But I like it very much better when from church we all go home, And the married brothers and sisters, and the...