tTBE STOtDJLTi OBEGONIAN, 1'OIiTLA, ; KOVEMBEB 22, 1908.
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SHE EATS SOME . THANKSGIVING DINNERS
Thanksgiving' Day comes round each year (a fact I need not state)
And happy is the lucky one who has a heaped up plate.
Some persons buy their own repasts or else they go without
And many eat with thankless hearts, I haven't any doubt.
The more you have the more you get (fact number five to state)
And Fluffy with her well filled purse had invitations eight.
She'd also planned to feed some children, moreHess half starved,
ei hnrwtd to view their thankful eyes as she the turKey carved.
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2. -Dear Aunt, if I were only eight I'd know'just what to do.'
"Dear Niece, you're twenty-rone at least, so act as pleases vou
The girl o'erlooked the fearful jest and said, "I must refuse
"At least a half a dozen, and I don't know which to choose."
"Why not accept them all, my dear, and stay a course at each?
I he Morrises lead off with soup, a course with Mrs. Leech,
"An entree with the Gandergilts, the turkey with the Brownes-
"The Courcy-Lisles, the Parrakeyts wind up at Bishop Drowne'
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4. They ate like little beastikTns, but .Fluffy didnYcare.
Shejwished,to make them happy that's the reason.sheiwas therc.
And when they'd eaten all they could,. each girl and every lad
Stood up on .table or. on chair and cheered for. her like mad.
"I'm sure .I'm very glad you .came; iwe'II meet again quite;soori.
"We'll have:a;dinner in this place some.pIeasant.Sundayiiioon
Then feelingvtired, Fluffy; spent an hour, lying down,
And;when thejafternoon hadiwanedrsheisought her-eveninggown.,
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3. 'The very thing!" said Fluffy, "and at noon I'JI give a feast
"To all my little kiddies on the side they call the east"
"The side they call the east! What's that?" At which dear Fluffy cried,
"Delightful, dense old dearie I Shall I plainly say, 'EasL$ide'?"
Thanksgiving Day dawned bright and clear, and in a taxicab
Dear Fluffy and her aunt went forth to see a game of grab.
Such manners at the table I am sure one seldom sees.
,oThe boys and girls were hungry and felt perfectly at ease.
5r-The' Morrises "led off with soup' with Fluffy in her "place
Alongside Viscounr VerisobhtShe led a merry pace
With brilliant talk that made him blink, but soon she had to leave
To take a course with Mrs. Leech which made the Viscount grieve
She pulled a turkey wishbone with Sir Reginald Delane,
She "entreed" with the.Courcy'LisIes and addled one poor . brain.
TheiParrakeyts;she chattered with (and dazzled Colonel Gay), .
And-nexrtojcood old.BishppiDrowneiWOund.up Thankseivina Day.
(COPYRJOHTT9oCr BYTHE EW YORtC'HERAUyCO.)
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