d Fred; "but why can't you go to sleep?"

"Because the little men that you see everywhere carry pins. They prick
us when we try to sleep. O, I wish I hadn't come!" And the boy began
to cry again. Fred thought he was very silly, and ran off to find some
other new-comer.

Night came at last. Big lamps were hung on the trees and made the
place as light as day. The little men were flying about to keep the
sleepy ones awake.

Fred got sleepy at last, and began to nod. A little man thrust a big
pin into him. "You must keep awake," he said. Fred tried hard, but his
eyes would shut, and then would come the wicked pin. At last he
screamed aloud.

"Why, Fred! what is the trouble?" and he looked up. There was mamma.

"I don't like Wide-Awake Land," cried Fred. "I will go to sleep when
you want me to after this."

"I think you are dreaming, Fred," replied mamma.

"I was, but I am awake now."

"Well, dear, you are in Sleepy Land now. So good night, and pleasant
dreams."

ELIZA M. SHERMAN.

[Illustration: {A LITTLE GIRL WEARING A HAT.}]

LULU'S FIRST THANKSGIVING.

Lulu was six years old last spring. She came to make a visit at her
grandfather's, and stayed until after Thanksgiving.

Lulu had lived away down in Cuba ever since she was a year old. Her
cousins had written to her what a good time they had on Thanksgiving
Day; so she was very anxious to be at her grandfather's at that time.
They do not have a Thanksgiving Day down in Cuba. That is how Lulu did
not have one until she was six years old.

[Illustration: {THE FAMILY AT TABLE WAITING FOR THE TURKEY TO BE
CARVED.}]

She could hardly wait for the day to come. Such a grand time as they
did have! Lulu did not know she had so many cousins until they came to
spend the day at her grandfather's. It did not take them long to get
acquainted. Before time for dinner they felt as if they had always
known each other.

The dinner was the grand event of the day. Lulu had never seen so long
a table except at a hotel, nor some of the vegetables and kinds of
pie.

[Illustration: {PLAYING BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF.}]

Lulu had never tasted turkey before. Her grandmother would not have
one cooked until then, so she could say that she had eaten her first
piece of turkey on Thanksgiving Day.

After dinner they played all kinds of games. All the uncles and aunts
and grown-up cousins played blind-man's-buff with them.

THE SUN-KISS.[1]

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