I have a general plan mapped out for the stories, but a great deal of the work will have to be done from week to week, as I go on.

I shall use the same programme in the main for both groups, but I shall simplify everything and illustrate more freely for the little ones, telling the historical and scientific stories with much more detail to the older group.

This is what Mr.Bird calls my 'basic idea,' which will be filled out from week to week according to inspiration.

For November, I shall make autumn, the harvest, and Thanksgiving the starting-point.

I am all ready with my historical story of 'The First Thanksgiving,' for I told it at the Children's Hospital last year, and it went beautifully.
"I have one doll dressed in Dutch costume, to show how the children looked that the little Pilgrims played with in Holland; and another dressed like a Puritan maiden, to show them the simple old New England gown.