CHAPTER VII.
THANKSGIVING-DAY.
Thanksgiving-Day had come.

Among the multitude of good things it brought with it, not the least important, in the eyes of the children, was a visit from their grandmother, Mrs.Lee, who arrived the evening previous.

She was the mother of Mrs.Preston, and lived in a distant town in Vermont.

She had not visited the family for several years, and the children and their parents were all very glad to see her once more.
She was much surprised to find how the young folks had grown since she last saw them.

Alice had shot up into a young lady, Oscar, who she remembered as "a little bit of a fellow," was a tall boy, Ella, too, was quite a miss, and Georgie, "the baby," had long since exchanged his frock for the jacket, trowsers, and boots, of boyhood.