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StoryTitle("caps", "A Good Thanksgiving") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(50, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said Old Gentleman Gay, \"On a Thanksgiving Day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you want a good time, then give something away.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he sent a fat turkey to Shoemaker Price,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the shoemaker said, \"What a big bird! how nice! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And since a good dinner's before me, I ought", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To give poor Widow Lee the small chicken I bought.\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(51, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"This fine chicken, oh, see!\" said the pleased Widow Lee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And the kindness that sent it, how precious to me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would like to make some one as happy as I—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll give Washerwoman Biddy my big pumpkin pie.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And oh, sure,\" Biddy said, \"'tis the queen of all pies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just to look at its yellow face gladdens my eyes. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now it's my turn, I think; and a sweet ginger cake ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the motherless Finigan children I'll bake.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"A sweet cake, all our own! 'Tis too good to be true!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the Finigan children, Rose, Denny, and Hugh; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"It smells sweet of spice, and we'll carry a slice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To poor little Lame Jake—who has nothing that's nice.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Oh, I thank you, and thank you!\" said little Lame Jake;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Oh, what beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cake!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And oh, such a big slice! I will save all the crumbs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And will give 'em to each little sparrow that comes!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sparrows they twittered as if they would say, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like Old Gentleman Gay, \"On a Thanksgiving Day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you want a good time, then give something away.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Marian Douglas.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>