At the holiday feast, each speckled wing,And try with the fowls some notes to sing. A good thanksgiving for great and small.The empty crops stood out like a ball ; We must be going, said Robert White,Then back over the field and out of sight. LAVINIA S. GOODWIN. … Did you ever wonder why childrenalways wish to do what grown peo-ple do ? Why the boys like to playsoldiers, and farmers, and conductors,and doctors, and keep store just likepapa ? Why the girls play keephouse, and bake, and sweep, andtake care of the doll-children, and govisiting like mamma ?…
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