I wish you would keep away from such places--I should feel a good deal easier if you would." The subject was dropped, and dinner,--the event of Thanksgiving-day, in every New England home,--soon began to engross the attention of the household.

It was a pleasant feast, to old and young.

The children forgot all their little, fanciful troubles, and the traces of care were chased from their parents' brows for the hour.
The afternoon was stormy, and the children amused themselves with in-door sports.

After tea, however, Oscar asked his father for some money, to buy a ticket to an entertainment that was to take place in the evening.

But both his parents thought he had better stay at home, with the rest of the family, and he reluctantly yielded to their wishes, coupled with the promise of a story or two from his grandmother, about old times.
A cheerful fire was burning in the grate, when the family returned to the parlor, from the tea-table.