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AN INVITATION 



US' 



EFORE the excitement of moving 

 into camp liad passed away, the 

 children had another treat in the 

 ^W shape of a pair of holidays, — 

 Thanksgiving and the day after. 

 For as the day of Saint Turkey 

 always comes on Thursday, 

 teacliers and children agree that 

 it is not worth while to light 

 school lires on Friday, only to 

 put them out again the next day. 



" We can begin the stories and have the campfire 

 every night and shoot every afternoon. It's begun to 

 snow already, and perhaps Nez will come down and 

 show us liow to make snow-shoes," chattered Dodo, 

 happily, on Monday, as she looked out of the window 

 in the wonder room, into the sky at dusk, and saw the 

 mysterious flakes of the first snow-storm fluttering 

 down. 



'^ Yes, it will be jolly ! " said Nat, looking up from 

 the book he was studying ; '' but I want to do some 

 real shooting, too. Rod says there's lots of Rabbit 

 signs over along the edge of the wood lot, where he 

 was hauling logs yesterday, and lie found three forms 



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