Thanksgiving Spirit Among Dollittle Girls in Town
Bertha, Be Be, and fellow students plan a Thanksgiving feast for the Dolittle family, gathering vegetables, pies, bread, and a cranberry sauce donation while their teacher contributes fruit. Queen Esther the hen inspires a playful nickname as the girls prepare baskets and surprise the grateful family, sharing a communal thanks.
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Bess
Bertha
Esther
Gly Garden
Bees
Beatrice Calling
Anna
Briges
Mae Barton
Beulah Ashbrook
Blanche
Webster
Dertha
Thair
Mr. Dolittle
Mra. Dolittle
Grack
A Prayer of Thanks for a Light Day
A archaic devotional note seeks thanks for blessings and faithful actions. The writer addresses Pather and Lora, asking for grace on daily work and the small gifts of life, including flowers and light, and prays for remembered loved ones and modest gratitude.
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Lora
Turkeys Near Roast as Old Boy Warns of Wind
A fragment suggests a rustic warning about turkeys and a caller or speaker nicknamed Old Boy, indicating a draft or wind scare. The line hints at a local rural setting with playful speech and unresolved context.
No wonder he wails Col marks tall man in LA tale
Col marks tall man tells a tough luck story about being seven feet two and weighing ten fifty. He cannot find clothes or shoes off the rack and must be tailor made. He travels with his own bed because hotels won’t accommodate him. He has wartime scars and must sit in back rows or rent a large theater box. He cannot use a telephone booth and confesses his one advantage is seeing all the pretty girls in a crowd.
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Marks
Willard
Los Angeles
Abe
Pretty Lille Baker
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