CHAPTER VI 



THANKSGIVING AT GRANDFATHER'S FARM 



^THANKSGIVING at Grand- 

 father's farm was more than 

 a holiday. It was a great date on 

 the calendar, for it divided the 

 year in halves as no other single 

 day of the three hundred and 

 sixty-five did. It marked the end 

 of the outdoors, and the begin- 

 ning of the indoors the day 

 when everybody came home; 

 when along with them into the 

 house came all the outdoors, too, 

 as if the whole farm were brought 

 in to toast its toes before the 

 great hearth fire ! 

 For the hearth fire was big enough and cheery 



