A GOOD THANKSGIVING

A GOOD THANKSGIVING

Said an old gentleman on a Thanksgiving Day:
"If you want a good time, then give something away."

So he sent a fat turkey to shoemaker Price.
And the shoemaker said: "What a big bird! How nice!

With such a good dinner before me I ought
To give Widow Lee the small chicken I bought."

"This fine chicken, oh, see!" said the sweet Widow Lee,
"And the kindness that sent it--how precious to me!

I'll give washwoman Biddy my big pumpkin pie."
"And, oh, sure," Biddy said, "tis the queen o' all pies!
Just to look at its yellow face gladdens my eyes!

Now it's my turn I think, and a sweet ginger cake
For the motherless Finnigan children I'll bake."

Cried the Finnigan children, Rose, Denny and Hugh:
"It smells sweet of spice, and we'll carry a slice
To little lame Jake, who has nothing that's nice."

"Oh, I thank you and thank you!" said little lame Jake;
"What a bootiful, bootiful, bootiful cake!

And oh, such a big slice! I'll save all the crumbs,
And give them to each little sparrow that comes."

And the sparrows, they twittered, as if they would say,
Like the old gentleman: "On a Thanksgiving Day,
If you want a good time, then give something away."
---anonymous