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Title: A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays

Author: Amy E. Blanchard

Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30007]

Language: English

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A DEAR LITTLE GIRL'S THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

The "Dear Little Girl" Series

A Dear Little Girl
A Dear Little Girl at School
A Dear Little Girl's Summer Holidays
A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays

A DEAR LITTLE GIRL'S
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

_Amy E. Blanchard_

[Illustration]

WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Racine, Wisconsin

Copyright 1912 by George W. Jacobs & Co.

Printed in 1924 by
Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
Racine, Wis.

Printed in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE INVITATION 9

II RELIANCE 30

III WHERE'S THE KEY? 50

IV A HEARTY DINNER 71

V THE RED BOOK 93

VI THE OLD HOUSE 113

VII THE MILL STREAM 134

VIII JETTY'S PARTY 154

IX THE ELDERFLOWERS 174

X WHAT BEN DID 196

XI FAREWELLS 215

XII HOW ARE YOU? 234

A DEAR LITTLE GIRL'S THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

CHAPTER I

THE INVITATION

"Any news, mother?" asked Edna one Friday afternoon when she came home
from school.

"There's a letter from grandma," replied Mrs. Conway after kissing the
lips held up to hers. "There isn't any real news in it, but there is an
invitation."

"What kind of an invitation?"

"A Thanksgiving kind."

"Oh, mother, what do you mean?"

"I mean that grandma wants us all to spend an old-fashioned Thanksgiving
with her; the kind she used to have when she was young. She says she
and grandpa are both getting old and they may not be able to have th