An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

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Louisa May Alcott. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

CONTENTS:

I. AN OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING

II. HOW IT ALL HAPPENED

III. THE DOLLS' JOURNEY FROM MINNESOTA TO MAINE

IV. MORNING-GLORIES

V. SHADOW-CHILDREN

VI. POPPY'S PRANKS

VII. WHAT THE SWALLOWS DID

VIII. LITTLE GULLIVER

IX. THE WHALE'S STORY

X. A STRANGE ISLAND

XI. FANCY'S FRIEND

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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 6

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Prue obediently tugged away at the crane, with its black hooks, from which hung the iron tea-kettle and three-legged pot; then she settled the long spit in the grooves made for it in the tall andirons, and put the dripping-pan underneath, for in those days meat was roasted as it should be, not baked in ovens.

Meantime Tilly attacked the plum-pudding. She felt pretty sure of coming out right, here, for she had seen her mother do it so many times, it looked very easy. So in went suet and fruit; all sorts of spice, to be sure she got the right ones, and brandy instead of wine. But she forgot both sugar and salt, and tied it in the cloth so tightly that it had no room to swell, so it would come out as heavy as lead and as hard as a cannon-ball, if the bag did not burst and spoil it all. Happily unconscious of these mistakes, Tilly popped it into the pot, and proudly watched it bobbing about before she put the cover on and left it to its fate.

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