LXXI. — Thanksgiving Day 



HERE is Thanksgiving Day right on top of 

 us, and I am all in a fluster. I am not 

 sure that I am going to be thankful about 

 anything. Isn't that dreadful.'' But the 

 truth is that in my usual improvident fashion I 

 forgot all about it. While other people were care- 

 fully saving up their thankful feelings for the official 

 day, Oct. 20th, I just went along carelessly pouring 

 out my thankfulness whenever it welled up within 

 me. But that is not the way well-conducted people 

 do. They are as methodical about their thanks as 

 the woman in the story was about baths. When she 

 had a stationary tub put in the house she exclaimed 

 to an admiring friend, "It looks so nice I can hardly 

 wait till Saturday night." As nearly as I can judge 

 the world is full of just such careful people, and 

 they never let a speck of thankfulness escape them 

 until the right day comes around. They keep it in 

 through all the long dreary year, and, then on the 

 20th of October, they will go about expressing it 



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