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T1IANK30IVIN0 DAY.
Tho corn In In tho burn, ami the fruit Ii In tho
Mil,
Ami tho workers nrc nwiiy:
Tho world Is cold wltliout, lint the liro Ih brlxht
within,
For'tls'lhanksKlvlmc Dny.
The children's idowlinr chookn are like npples
round anil ri;l.
In thoir eye mirth has Its way;
In vnln tho cldoiH shako tho wise rvprovlnjr
hcnd,
It IrtTlmnkcKlvliw Hay.
Tho innthor smllea with
(irlilu on tho tnll Ron
at hor side,
Wiiifiiiiiir lliu babies lit their tiluv:
A iliuiKhlor, Illy fair, sliws n koimI old mooting
iilr.
For 'tis Thanksgiving Day.
Aniuud tho tuhlo spread with wondrous moats
and bread,
Look tlmo tho revelers stay:
Tim nuts and unities ooiiio last, while Ihu old
folks rend tin past,
Tor 'tis l titiiikHKlvliifr I'ny.
Now, In tho Holy ItiKik. they all toother look.
And tho irnimlslro kneels to tiriiy:
Then most, when on tho air falters that trcm
1)1 1 ii ff liver,
It ih Thanksgiving Day.
-.Urn. M. '. Hint, in Chicago Advance
THE UK A CON'S TUKKKY.
Dowxm Turnor hnd boon a " profes
Bor" for upwards of thirty yours, and
ids walk and convocation had corro
npondod with ids profession; but tho
Htoro ho sot by that turkoy. sumo of tho
stricter sort shook thoir houds and
said, was altogether greater than it was
moot for ono of Ids calling to sot by
any carnal croaturo.
Hut thorn was a groat oxouso for tho
worthy man; for it must litivo boon a
vory spiritually-minded person whoso
mouth would not have watered at the
sight of such a fowl as tho deacon was
fatting for the coining Thanksgiving.
That turkey, it is our candid belief,
stood full four foot barefooted; at what
liguru ho turned tho scale is not set
down in tho records of corpulent statis
tics, and wo prefer not to shook the
reader's credulity by hazarding an
opinion. Not old enough to bo tough,
hut in thu full perfection of completed
adolescence, plump in contour without
the grosser obesity of declining years,
gifted with ovory gallinaceous grace,
ho was, indeed, a bipod to bo proud of.
Now, whilst juicy' visions wore Hit
ting before tho minds of expectant
miosis, and more limn ono mature
ma don was louginglv anticipating a
tug at his wishbone, tho deacon's tur
key became a stumbling-block of temp
tation in tho way of Sam Whipple and
Dick Spanglor a pair of light-minded
youths who could see a great deal of
fun in a very poor joke.
" What cap till sport it would bo to
steal that turkey on Thanksgiving eve,"
suggested Sam, with a wink at Dick.
Ami got Tom Grill, tho colored
cook, to roost him, and thou call in a
lot of tho boys, and havo a glorious
time," added tho hitter
"Then, as wo'ro bolh among tho
youngsters invited to tho deacon s din
nor, won t it do jolly to near his lam
Ins
out at ons ovor the missing fowl? they'll
beat out of sight tdl tho sighs over
heaved for tho llosh-pots ot Egypt,"
ohuckled Sam.
"Ho! he! ho!" giggled Dick.
"Haw! haw! haw!" gulVawod Sam.
" Let's do it." said the one.
"Agreed!" returned tho othor.
After layingtlioir heads together hnlf-
un-hour, a plan was matured, and tho
two scparatoil in great glee.
Tho deacon's turkey roostod in tho
wood-house, which had a shutter open
ing on an adjacent alloy, and fastened
by a hook and stanlo inside. On a v sit
which Sam Whipple made to tho prem
ises on Wodnosduv afternoon, undor
pretext of borrowing tho' deacon's saw
tniok, ho managed slyly to undo the
hook, thus lei.ving tho way clear for the
tho night's operations.
At a safe hour alter dark tho con
spirators started on their errand, first
casting lots to decide who should en
ter tlio wood-house and bring oil" the
prize, and who should keep wntoh
tho former task falling to Sam, and tho
latter to Dusk.
-"You stand here," Biiid Sam, as they
ncared tho mouth of the alley.
Dick took his station, and Sam, ad
vancing stealthily, soon reached tho
shutter, which ho had no ditlioulty in
opening. Then climbing in, he was nit
long in (hiding the object of his search.
" But! put!" squawked tho turkov,
and Hop, Hop, went his wings, as Sam
grasped his loirs anil pulled him down
from his porch.
After a slmrp scuttle, Sam was tri
umphant, and held his gobblorship last
under ono arm and securely gagged
him with tho othor hand.
Thu noiao ot tho struggle had aroused
tho deacon's dog, who growlod and
barked liorcoly; but Sam kept quiot
and soon nil wiis still.
"Is that you, Dick?" ho whisporod,
as ho hoard stops approaching softly
outside.
"Yes," was tho answer in tho sixmo
tone.
"Horo, tako him," said Sam, pass
ing out tho turkey, which tho oilier re
ceived. Ihon dimbhig out himself, which
took a little time, lor ho moved cau
tiously, ho looked about for Dick, but
neither ho nor tho turkoy was in s'ght.
lie walked up and down thu alloy, but
thu search was in vain.
"Wo I, I call that a shabby trick!"
muttered rain, "titer my taking all
thu risk, too. Hut may bo he'll turn
up all right in tho morning. Ho had
bolter, I toll h in!"
So saving. Sum walked sulkily homo.
Next morn ng, bright, and early, ho
started in smirch of Dick, whom he mot
shortly apparently on as milar limit foi
li i tit.
"Where's Unit turkey?" was Snxi'fl
JllHt question.
"Where U Jic, yourself?" retorted
Dick.
"I handed him out to yon," returned
Sam.
"You didn't," replied tho othor.
"When the dog barked, I dodged round
tho corn
mor. When I came buck, I went
up to the
lis loudly
wood-house, and culled
you
Iiad
iiH I ditroil, but you
gone.
"That's too thin," sneored Sam.
"What do you moan?"
"That you've turned traitor,
mid
made away with tho turkey."
"That's n lie!"
For the space of throe minutes there
was a rapid and promiscuous motion of
four lists, at tho end of which time Sam
hauled oil' with a blackened e, o, and
Dick with a bloody nose. Both seemed
to have had enough for the present, and
irmit tlioir 1'iiuiifir! i vi, Wfiiu.
When, at the unpointed hour, they
severally entered tlio deacon's parlor j
each fearing that if lie stayed away he
would bo liablo to suspicion Sam had
concealed his damaged optie with a
pair of goggles, worn, "ho said, for soro
ejus brought on by excessive studv,
and Dick acc tinted for his swollen
noo on tho ground of a violent catarrh.
Tlio deacon, so far from appearing
chopfallen, looked unusually cheerful,
and when the gu-sts walked in to din
ner, what was Sam s and Dick's as
tonishment to see at the post of honor
on the table tho finest, fattest and big
gest turkoy that over aroused mortal
heart to thanksgiving.
" I tell you what, friends," said tlio
deacon, when lru had ('unshod saying
grnco. "wo havo more to be thankful
lor than most of you are yet aware of.
You don't know xvhat a narrow escape
we've had from losing tho best part
of our dinner. Last night Ihcard tlio
dog bark, and going down tho alley
back of tho wood-house, found thu
shutter open. Somebody insido whis
porod: 'Is that you, Dick?' 'Yes, I
answered,' for you know my name i
Richard. ' Horo, tako him,' said the
other, handing out tho turkoy, which I
quietly took and bore away."
Tho mystery botxvoou Sam and Dick
was thus cleared up. but happily not,
as we havo seen, till they Intel suffi
ciently punished one another. From a
twinkle in tlio deacon's eye they more
than half suspected that ho knew all.
At any rate, neither Sain nor Dick over
ventured again to visit Edith Turner.
the dorcou's pretty daughter, who, six
months alter, marrieil another, ami,
lotus hope, u bettor man. Wuio lork
Ledger.
The .Mother's Leisure Hour.
Homo lias been called woman's king
dom and litlv so, because within its
walls she whins wile, mother, daughter,
or sister, holds tho scoptor. "Tho
many make the household, but only ono
tho homo," says a poet, and in a sense his
xvords aro true, for in ovory home tlio
house mother is tho ono who gives the
tone to tho family. The family life sol
dom rises higher than the mother's
ideal will let it rise. Whatever is her
predominant aim, thu ultimate desire
of her heart is rovealed in her sons and
daughters. It she is selfish, frivolous
and lull of worldly ambition, her chil
dren are in a fair way to become tho
same. If she is cheery, earnest and
consecrated in her purpoio to live tlio
best and highest life possible to a Chr's
tian woman, her children usually follow
1 in nor slops.
I Few leisure hours aro possessed by
mothers with their little ones around
them. Tho dins aro crowded with
cares. The cooking, the sewing, tho
tying of strings and fasloning ot but-
, ions, lliu training of children, tho hear
ing of lessons, the many, many things
I which make very little show hut con
sumo a great ileal of time, fill up a
mother's uiiv so that her resting spell
seldom arrives till evening. Then,
I when the older boys and gir s aro busy
with their maps and slates, when father
i is indulging himself with the paper or a
favorite book, when the l.ttle ones have
said thoir prayers and the uaby has
gone to sloop, tho mother feels that sho
has earned tlio right to a littlo bit of
recess. isho is wise if she takes it. 1-ar
too often sho sei.es upon that hour, in
stead, to linMi Susie's new frock, or
patch Tonum's trousors; to put new
wristbands on lather's slurt or a patch
on the old table cloth. She works on
with nervous energy, when sho ought
to bo road ng nu entertaining story, or
listening to her daughter's music, or
pla ing an air or two herself. She re
luctantly lays aside her basket and
ueedio when the clock strikes eleven,
and drags herself woarilv to bed. This
is poor economy. We would persuade,
if wo could, all tho mothers who read
this paper to take tho leisure hour or
half-hour xvhonox'or they can, ovon
though thoy lot something else go. It
will bo bolter for the r families and
thomsolvos in the coming daxs, when
tho children shall bo growt, un, and
ovon more than at present their mother
shall bo tlioir guide, companion and
friend. Christum at Work-
Tho Emperor AloMindor III. often
declares: "I am quito ready to meet
death when it cotuos." Ah, xos.Alook;
so aro we all of us; fact is. old boy, vo
have to bo; can't holp ourso ves, ou
know; no postponement on account of
tho woaMior and no allowance for d'f
feronco in watches. liurUnyton Hindis
eye.
A olairvoMint Ifas been brought be
fore a police court m New York, com
pelled to refund tho money roeoivml
from hor credulous victims ami put un
dor bonds to withhold from lurtlfor
praoticu of her vagabond ending.
Mill I ! 'I
KKLIU10US AND im'CJATIO.IAL.
The estimated amount of money to
bo raised by tlio London School Hoard
this year is about fourteen dollars for
each child instructed.
Tlio Methodist Episcopal Church
will establish a magnilicent university
in Chattanooga, movidi'd that city will
give tho ground for tho structure Unit
is to be built.
A ricli Italian who lately died in
Finnoo has bequeathed ' 10,000 to Kislo
ben, tho birthplace of Luthor, as a tes
timony of his poisonal veneration for
the great reformer.
The King of Sweden last spring or
dered collections taken up in the father
land. to uid a leoblo Swedish Lutheran
church in Philadelphia in puJugadebt
of 10,000. The result is the handsome
little sum of .S1,."00.
The friendsof the I'lioilic Theologic
al Seminars', Oakland, I'ul., havo
raised $10,000 of $00,000 which are ru-
'l"),ru(ln
-0.0u0
to secure si conditional gilt of
more from Mr. Moses Hopkins
to tho institution.
The London Truth shvs of the Hov.
I'onto ooter, tho nogro clergyman who
has attracted some attention in England,
that ho preached "in well chosen
language and with a purity of intona
tion that would shame many of our Ox
ford curates."
Of two hundred and six ministors
of tho Northern l'resbytcrian Church
who died last year, two were over
ninety years old, nineteen were be
tween eighty and ninety, thirty-livo
were between seventy and eight, and
ono hundred and fifty were under
seventy.
lu the current number of a month
ly review a list is given of tlio product
ive property and income of the prin
cipal American colleges. Columbia
College has the greatest resources;
properly valued at tf l,7(i:t,0i)', witli an
incomo'of $:n.",oiH). Harvard is second
with productive assets of .:).10.'),Oiio,
with an income of $-J:il,0Ut. .Johns
Hopkins University has .SI.OOO.OOO of
property and an income of lb',o00.
Yale has property to the amount of
S?o87,000. with an income of St.'hi.uOl).
Most of these institutions have been
liberally endowed, and a large amount
of money has been given to institutions
which are scarcely mentioned in the
list ot our principal educational estab
lishments. One of the greatest of
American colleges, an institution which
possesses more claims to the title of
university than any oilier American
college, the University of Michigan,
which instructs neirly l,i00 students
for a merely nominal tuition, has re
ceived scarcely any aid from individual
benefactions.
Sleeping on the Wall hl.le.
A physician was lately called to pro
scribe tor a xoting lady who lives in ono
of tlio moat charming villas in Learnod
ville. " Nothing tlio matter with her," she
declared, "nothing but terrible head
aches. Kvery morning siio waueii
with a head.icho. and it lasted nearly
halt the day. It had been going on for
months oxer since thoy moved into
their new house. Tho old doctor tried
all the old remedies and thox all failed.
Hiding and archery xvero faith'ully
tested, study and practice wore ciieor
i'ullv given up. Nothing did any good.
" Will you let me see your bedroom?"
asked the doctor one day, and ho was
shown up into the prettiest little nest
imaginable.
Nothing wrong about the ventilat'on.
The winiluxx's xvero high and broad and
left open every night, tlio patient said.
Tlio bud stood in ono corner against tho
wall.
"How do you sloop?" says the
doctor.
"On my right side at tho back of the
bed, xvitli my lace to tho xvall. Lou
likes tlio front best."
"The dickens she does!" savs tho
doctor. "So do 1. "W III you do mo
tho lavor to xvheel the bud into tho
middle of tlio room and sleep so for a
weeks' I hen let me know about tho
headaches."
Doctors aro so absurd! The middle
of the room, indeed! And there xvero
tho windows on ono side, and tlio two
doors on tho two other sides, and the
mantel with it Macratne lambrequin on
the fourth side. There was no place
for the bed but just where it blood, in
the corner.
" Never mind! Sacrifice yourlambro
qtiiu,'' urged the doctor "jut for a
xveek, you Knoxv."
Tlio lambrequin xvas sacrificed, tho
bod moved where it hnd frou air on both
sides, and tho headaches disappeared.
It may bo only an exceptionally deli
cate system that xvould be induced to
actual headache by breathing all night
tho relleeted air from a wall. Yet pos
sibly soino of the morning dullness xvo
know of may bo traceable to a like
cause. At any rate, plenty of breath
ing space around a bed can only be an
advantage to everybody.
In visiting thrco or lour newly-built
and bo.iutiiiil houses recently, the lack
of a good place for the bed xvas tho
most striking feature of the bedrooms.
Some of those rooms xvore finished in
shining maliog'iny, obony, or walnut.
Some xvero hung xvith rich modern
tapestry. All xvero elegant and a few
xvero 'dry. Hut in tlio most of tho best
of them, xvhero xvas tho bod to stand?
A bay xvindow, perhaps, xvould occupy
the middle of ono sido, anolhor window
another, a door another, a mantel-pioco
another. Christian Union.
--A hoivo which Dean Boomer, ol
London, Out., had in his possession foi
forty-sk years, and xvas really two
years ohler than that, xvas shot on
Wednesday to save it from stamition.
It had bui.'oino too xvoak to eat.
Youths' Department.
tiik sviwoirDora visionT
Thcro'B the hell for "recosa ovor," tltno for
Mtupld books iijraln:
Hut how cm h follow study wUliThunlVKlvlnw
on his liriiln
When I read of Turks anil Turkey, littlo hood
to them I pay.
Wbtlo my mind Is full of vision of thu near
TliiinkRKlvItiK Dny.
I can only hoar tho "gobble" of n turkoy, fat
and nice.
Which, my (rrniiilpii wrltoa, la wnltlnK to bo
1 'lilt rl In a trice,
.lust as soon us Sis and I and all the family aro
able
To beoit and spend Thanksjrlvlntf round tho
dear old liiriii-liomo talilo.
Tlml'n a study, now, of Turkey that a fellow
llko, I'm Hiiro,
Hut put It In Rooirriipuy, and that I can't en
dure: It him a (MITerunt davor, somehow, on tho dear
old farm,
And 'cratnm nif" then or "stuffltiK" novor
does one any hnrm.
Now there's a class In spoiling: Hobby White
ha tripped on "skates,"
And that's Homethliitf don't do. I remember
how my mntos
And 1 went olf toftcthor, with our skates upon
our tcet,
Tor a tiico across the mill-pond, and 'twas only
who beat.
Oh, TtumksKlvliur J)ny Is Jolly on tho dear old
farm, and so
It knocks siudy lu tho head Xor a wcok before
we ko;
And I pity uny follow, bo ho Murk, or white,
or blown,
Whose uraudpapu and grandma are not living
out of WWII.
Well, 1 H'pose I i7it to study whllo my book
before mo lies,
Hut It's hard upon u lellow now to have to
shut his eyes
Upon such charmlnsr visions. Did you speak,
sir- can I toll
Whfre Turkoy Is Oh yes, sir, I have learned
that le son well.
Marti I). Ilrinc, m Hariicr'itYiiuwj l'ciile.
A JOLLY TUANKSUIV1NU DAY.
"Oh, what a jolly day! Good thick
ice on tlio pond! and just the day for a
race with tho fellows."
Harry Archer xvas out of led with a
bound and a real livo boy's whoop, and
ran to the xvindow lor a viow of tlio (lis- '
taut pond, before drawing on the xvarm
stockings and shoes which had lain all
night in scattered placos about the
lloor, keeping company xvith dill'oront
articles of clothing horo and there and !
all over.
All of Harry's thoughts xvure xvith the
pond and his now skates. The skates ,
were a present from his Uncle Harry, I
whoso namesake the boy xvas, and xvith
whom ho xvas a great favorite. Uncle
Harry lived in the city, but hud promis
ed to eat his Thanksgiving-dinner with
Mrs. Archer and hor husband, and
Harry bad been promised a race xvith i
his uncle after dinner, for Uncle Hal ,
was a famous skater uotwithstinding '
his twenty-oight years, an age xvhich to
Hal junior scorned vory advanced in- j
deed. So to Harry this Thanksgiving j
Day seemed very 'important, and had
been anticipated long" and well. As ho '
hastily dressed himself, ho thought: i
Lot mo see; the follows xvill bo at the
pond about half-pat nine, 1 guess, and
unit win give us a skate of two or three
jolly hours before I come homo to dross
for dinner. Well, after dinner Uncle '
Hal and I aro going to skate 1 can J
beat an old man like him any day; and '
then, in tho evening, there'll bo
games, 'cause there's company coming,
and mamma eng igod a piano-man. Oh,
this xvill be a lirst-'elns's day, won't it,
though!"
All these thoughts, xvhilo the stock
ings and shoos, tho pants and jackets
xvero being donned rupidlv-and tho
last thoug'it, xvith tho final question,
must liavo been addressed to Harry's
rolloction, as he stood before tho mirror
brushing tiis curly, fair hair, and smiling
at tlio merry rosy face xvhich smiled
back to him.
Then, as every boy ought, ho knelt
to say tho morning prux or xvhich a good
mother had taught him never lo forget,
and in tho pra.cr xx'iis included tho
earnest petition: "Dear Lord, teach
me to do always to others as 1 xvould
that others should do also to me, lor
Jesus' sake." Harry had repeated that
prayer as long as ho could remember,
and although perhaps ho had never
thought as seriously of its meaning as
his mother desired ho should, vet a very
kind-hearted, loving littlo fellow was
Harry, ami willing always to bo oblig
ing and helpful, and such a boy is apt
to make a good man, xx'o all know.
Breakfast over, away wont Harry,
warmly olnd in his fur-lined coat, and
with his now skates slung oxer his
shoulder. In tho distance glistened the
smooth pond, on the surface ot which
already xvero gliding half a dozen boys.
Harry quickened his steps xvith a "Hur
rah, bovs!" and laughed aloud in the
fullness of his merry heart and over
flowing spirits. Only a littlo farther to
go nnirthon for the trial of speed bo
txveen the best skaters. Harry's chocks
xvero glowing xvith health and exorcise.
His heart xvas content xvith present joy
nnd merry anticipations for tho ro-t of
the day. And no xvondor that ho sang
and xx'histlcd along the road until sud
denly slopped by a pitiful sight before
him. A boy of his own ago upparontL ,
thin, white-cheeked and sail, his blue
lips trembling with xveakness and cold
as ho drew the xx'orn, scant jacket about
him, and his poor feet baroly protected
from the slippery road by a pair ot
gaping shoes. Much too snort for tho
shivering limbs xvas the ragged pair oi
pants, and tho boy's knees trembled
beneath his own slight weight.
" O Mastor Harry Archer," ho said,
imploringly, "can "you gi'o mo a foxv
pennies to got a roll xvith at tho corner,
lor I'm nearly starved and frozen to
death."
Harry recognized tho boy as tho son
and only child of a drunken father
xvho had long sinco griood his poor
xvifo to death and now xvas fast killing
his child xvith ill-troatmont.
" Hut, Jack, 1 thought your fithor
had gone to work again in tho fore
and so you xvould bo sa'o from blows
at least. How came you so far from
tho othor end of tho villago and your
home?"
Jack shook Ids hood, nnd the tears
filled his eyos -
"Homo, Master Harry! I've got no
homo noxv, Father boat nio last, night
and turned mo out of doors xvhon every
ono in tlio villago was asloop. and
threatened to kill mo if 1 cried aloud.
And then he packed up a foxv things
and took every cent of moiroy xvo Had
and xvent oil' this morning in the cars
somoxvhere, saying ho xvas going to bo
well rid of mo. And noxv I'm all alone,
and oh, so cold and hungry."
Harry listened xvith his little heart
full of indignation, and xvhile ho
listened there came over the field
from tho pond tho merry shouts of tho
bovs at play and tho ring of stool
against ice, so tempting a sound to
1 lurry's ears. Ho half turned toward
tho pond after giving Jack h fow cents,
and sxvung his skatos lrrosolutoly in his
hand. Hut was it. do you think, tho
memory of his usual petition only that
morning repeated as ho knelt in his
room that God xvould "to.ieh him to
do to others as he xvould others should
do to him" that kept him from going
i on towards his playmates and caused
him to turn agmn towards Jack,
who looked so pitiful and cold and
sad? It scorned an easy thing to
pray that ono littlo prayer xvhon
thuro xvero no obstacles in tlnA
xvay of his pleasures and ho had no
need to anticipate any such call upon
him, Hut it all flashed upon Harry
noxv plainly enough. If ho xvere Jack
and stood in, lack's position, hoxv would
lie like to bo treated? That xvas tho
question, and Harry's xvarm heart im
mediately ansxvorodit.
" Soo here, Jack," ho said, "you
look blue us indigo, Now, thorn's noth
ing can xx'arm a follow up like skating,
and you just put on those skates of
mine and cut across tho pond for a foxv
minutes, and then I'll take you home to
get a xvarm breakfast, and mother' 11
talk to you. I'm going liomoa minute,
ami you moot mc liore xviion i come
back; but, mind you, lot mo find you
xvith rod chooks, or I'll knoxv you
haven't boon skating. Hurry up, nox"
Tho smile of genuine pleasure which
broke all ovor .lack's face made Harry' 3
hoart glad, and presently ho saw tho
drunkard's child enjoying himself in
true boy-fashion for tho first time in
many a our of sorrow, as ho buckled
on the now skates and joined, un
it t ceil, the crowd of skaters on the pond.
Meanxvhde Harry ran home and re
lated to his mother tho wholo story.
Her xvarm heart was as easily touched
as her boy's had boon, and giving him
permission to bring Jack homo for some
breakfast she sent him with a loving
kiss ovor the road again, and then had
a talk xvith papa, about the poor boy
xvhose Thanksgiving Day had dawned
so sadly. Jack was on his xvay back
from tlm pond, after having xvarined
himself and his heart in tho oxorcise ho
so liked, when a gentleman overtook
him and kindly remarked, in parsing:
"Why, my boy, you're thinly drossod
for such a day, aren't you?" y
Jack colored painfully.
"I'm not cold now, "sir. sinco I'x-o
been skating; but I xvas nearly frozen,
and I am very poor."
"Hut you've a nice pair of skates.
How did you get those? bold your jack
et for them, may bo, oh?"
" Oh. no, indeed, sir. These are
Harry Archer's skates, and I hope God
xvill bless him, sir, for his kindness to
mo this day."
And Jack related tho story to the
gentleman. To his surprise tho gentle
man responded to his story xvith a
hearty: "Bless tho boy, he's a trump!'
And just as ho xvas wondering xvhat it
iiieant.hosaxvllaryrunuinglomoethim.
"1 say. Jack, it's all right. Mother
says you're to como Hiil'oa, Undo
Hal! you hero so early? Why, Jack,
you boen talking to Uuclo Hal?"
And then Hurry seized his uncle's
hand and gave a wild whoop a tor his
usual fashion xvhon anything pleased
him. Jack explained to Harry as thoy
walked homo. And when he had break
fasted bosido a xvarm lire a littlo later,
Harry's lather called him out to the
barn and had a long tal xvitli him
there, xvhich resulte I in his being on
gaged as stable boy and t assist the
coachman. In an old, but good suit
of clothes belonging to Harry, Jack
presumed a vory comtrtnbiu appear
ance, and Harry's delight knoxv no
bounds. Hut that n'glit, after all tho
company had gone, there xvas a timid
knock at Mrs. Archer's door, and Jack -xvas
found outside.
" l'leaso, lady," ho said, "I couldn't
sleep to-night until I came to ask you
if you xvould mind saying a prayer for
mo. I want to thank (Sod, only I don't
knoxv how exactly, for giving mo a
happy Thanksgiving Day. This morn
ing xvlien I saw the sun riso I didn't see
xvhat I had to bo thankful for; but now
it is all changed, and I feel so thankful
here, ma'am," laving his hand on his
heart, "that I must hour vou thank
God for me and teach mo how to do so,
too."
When he had gone, Mrs. Arehor xvont
up to her boy's room and kuolt bosido
his bed.
"My darling, toll mo xvhv vou did
for Jack what ho has told mo you did
this morning. I hadn't hoard about
sour giving up your sMiting bofore. 1
thought he was'just xvaiting there for
you. And you had anticipated your
race on tho pond so long? My dear lit
tlo son!"
And sho folded hor arms about him
closoly. Harry blu-hod a littlo, but tho
truo answer camo at last:
"You taught mo tho prayer, mamma,
you know. And so 1 did to Jack just
what 1 xx'ould havo wanted somulKidy to
do to mo if I had been poor and cold
and sad, and had no mother. 'Do unto
others,1 it says, you know, and so 1 l
only just d'd it, that's all, mamma. But
oh, hasn't it boon a jolly Thanksgiving
Day?" --..Van ;. Urine, in luwriitcd
Christian Weekly.
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