ood as this. We will have this with the turkey and oysters for the
supper, and no coffee or cocoa."

MULLED GRAPE-JUICE

1 quart of bottled grape-juice.
1 pint of water.
1 cup of sugar.
2 lemons.
2 sticks of cinnamon.
1 dozen cloves.

Put the spices in a piece of thin cloth and tie this up like a
bag; put it in a saucepan with the grape-juice, sugar, and water,
and let it slowly heat till it steams; stir well and let it stand
on the back of the fire for ten minutes. Add the juice of the
lemons and the thin yellow rind of one (you can peel this off in a
strip and drop it in); bring it all to the boiling-point, take out
the lemon-peel, taste it, and, if not sweet enough, add more
sugar. Serve very hot.

The next evening, just as it grew dark, Mildred and Jack hung a sheet
before the double doors of the library, and they, with some of the
cousins, gave a funny shadow-play, "Young Lochinvar," with a
rocking-horse for the "steed," and a clothes-basket for a boat, and
their father read the poem as they acted it. When everybody had stopped
laughing at it, the junior Blairs brought in the supper (the oysters had
been quietly cooking while they played), and arranged it on the library
table. Everything was hot and delicious, or cold and delicious, and the
mulled grape-juice was almost the best of all. After everything had been
eaten up, they all gathered around the fire and told stories. At last,
when the visitors had gone and bedtime had come for the Blairs, Mildred
said impressively:

"Now _that_ was what I call a Thanksgiving Day without a flaw!"

CHAPTER XVI

CANDY FOR THE FAIR

The Alcott School, which Mildred and Brownie attended, was going to give
a Christmas fair. That is, they were going to have a big, beautiful fair
to which everybody in town was to go and buy their Christmas presents,
and afterward the money was to be given to the children's ward in the
new hospital. Mildred and Brownie were on the candy committee, and, of
course, they were much excited. They had to have so much candy for a
whole town of people that they did not know where it was to come from.

"We could go around and ask for contributions," said Mildred to her
mother; "but the trouble is that everybody in the school is doing that
very thing, asking and asking and _asking_!"

"You might make a good deal of candy yourselves, and perhaps other
people who would not care to buy qua