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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight Stories. This coming

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Speaker 1: week is Thanksgiving for us in Canada, so I am

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Speaker 1: sharing a Thanksgiving story with you. The weather is getting

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Speaker 1: cooler here and fall has certainly arrived. Apples are ready

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Speaker 1: for picking, and there are pumpkins everywhere. I hope if

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Speaker 1: you are celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, that you have a

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Speaker 1: wonderful day with your family. This story is about a

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Speaker 1: boy who has gone away to find work and make

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Speaker 1: his way. Jack's sister, Jesse, has found out where he

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Speaker 1: is and she is sending him a Thanksgiving box. All

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Speaker 1: the treats she is making will be put into the

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Speaker 1: box in hopes of encouraging him to come home. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what will happen. A mystery in the kitchen. Something

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Speaker 1: very mysterious was going on in the Jarvis kitchen. The

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Speaker 1: table was covered with all sorts of good things eggs

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Speaker 1: and butter and raisins and fruits and spices, and Jesse,

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Speaker 1: with her sleeves rolled up and a white apron on,

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Speaker 1: was bustling about measuring and weighing and chopping and beating

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Speaker 1: and mixing those various ingredients in a most bewildering way. Moreover, though,

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Speaker 1: she was evidently working for dear life. Her face was

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Speaker 1: to keep from laughing outright, while Betty, the cook, who

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Speaker 1: every few minutes, as if the sight of Miss Jessie

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Speaker 1: It was one of the most pleasant sights that big

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Speaker 1: only thing that appeared mysterious about it was that the

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Speaker 1: two workers act strangely like conspirators. If they laughed, as

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Speaker 1: she snatched off her apron, hastily wiped her hands, rolled

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Speaker 1: down her sleeves, asked Betty if there was any flower

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Speaker 1: on her, and then hurried away into another part of

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Speaker 1: the house, trying to look cool and quiet as if

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Speaker 1: she had not been doing anything. On returning from one

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Speaker 1: of these trips, as she rolled up her sleeves again,

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Speaker 1: she said, Betty, we must open the other window. If

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Speaker 1: it is cold, Mama thought she smelled roast turkey. Betty

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Speaker 1: Jessee covered her mouth and laughed too. But the window

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Speaker 1: was opened to make a draft and carry out the

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Speaker 1: delicious odors, which, it must be confessed, did fill the

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Speaker 1: cracks and the keyholes, and hung about Jesse's dress as

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Speaker 1: she went through the hall, in a way to make

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Speaker 1: one's mouth water. What did you tell her, asked Betty,

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Speaker 1: as soon as she could speak. Oh, I told her.

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Speaker 1: I thought pot pie smelled a good deal like turkey,

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Speaker 1: said Jessee, and again they both laughed. Wasn't it lucky

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Speaker 1: we had pot pie today. I don't know what I

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Speaker 1: would have said if we hadn't.

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Speaker 1: It was not long after that when Jessie lined a

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Speaker 1: baking dish with nute, nice looking crust, filled it with

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Speaker 1: and a bowlful of bra laid a white blanket of

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Speaker 1: Just after, Betty drew out a dripping pan in which

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Speaker 1: beautiful turkey. Missus Jarvis couldn't have had any nose at

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Speaker 1: full of nice smells, and Betty hurried it into the pantry,

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Speaker 1: where the window was open to cool. Then Jesse returned

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Speaker 1: to the spices and fruits she had been working over

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Speaker 1: so long, and a few minutes later she poured a rich,

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Speaker 1: that'll be good. I know it will, said Betty, confidently.

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Speaker 1: That's your mom's best recipe. Yes, but I've never made

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Speaker 1: it before, said Jesse doubtfully. Oh, I know it'll be

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Speaker 1: all right, and I will watch it closely, said Betty.

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Speaker 1: And now you go and sit with your mom. I

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Speaker 1: wash all these things, said Jesse. You go along. I'd

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Speaker 1: at all, said Betty. Jesse hesitated, But you have enough

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Speaker 1: The girl insisted, Oh I know, said Jesse. You like

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Speaker 1: about them either. It was certainly odd and stranger things

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Speaker 1: packed that box full of good things.

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Speaker 1: The turkey wrapped in a snowy napkin, found a bed,

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Speaker 1: the chicken pie and the plum pudding beautiful looking, as

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Speaker 1: Betty said it would be. Bore the turkey company, and

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Speaker 1: numerous small things, jam jars, fruits, et cetera. Filled the

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Speaker 1: fastened on. Now you go to bed, Jesse, said Betty.

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Speaker 1: I'll wait. No, you must be tired, said Jesse. I'd

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Speaker 1: just as happily wait, but I'd rather said Betty, And

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Speaker 1: crept quietly upstairs, and before long there was a low

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Speaker 1: stood a man ready. He said, yes, answered Betty, but

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Speaker 1: don't want her disturbed. Here's the card to market by,

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Speaker 1: and she produced a card from the table. The man

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Speaker 1: shut the door. Not one of those good things ever

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Speaker 1: went into the Jarvis's dining room. The next morning, things

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Speaker 1: door was left open, and missus Jarvis was welcome to

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Speaker 1: for she hoped someday to be a great musician. She

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Speaker 1: so much as was necessary, with the well tried servant

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Speaker 1: at the head of the kitchen. But that box of goodies,

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Speaker 1: in a rough looking little mining ceunsettlement in Colorado, in

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Speaker 1: two people. One, a man of thirty, deeply engaged in

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Speaker 1: cleaning and oiling some tools. The other, a youth of sixteen,

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Speaker 1: was trying to make a fire burn in the primitive

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Speaker 1: minor suits and picks and other things about the room.

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Speaker 1: Told that their business was to dig for the yellow

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Speaker 1: gold we are all so greedy to have. Evidently luck

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Speaker 1: had not been good, for the whole place appeared run down,

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Speaker 1: and the two looked absolutely hungry. It was Thanksgiving morning,

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Speaker 1: as I said, But no, Oh, thankfulness shone in the

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Speaker 1: two pale, thin faces. Both were sad, and the younger

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Speaker 1: one almost hopeless. Jack, said the elder, pausing in his duties. Mind,

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Speaker 1: you give that old hen a good seasoning, or we

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Speaker 1: won't be able to eat it. It'll be better than

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Speaker 1: nothing anyway, I suppose, said Jack gloomily. Not much, especially

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Speaker 1: if you don't get the taste of sage brush out

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Speaker 1: of it. I've seen worse dinners, even Thanksgiving dinners, than

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Speaker 1: a sage hen, I haven't, said Jack. Shortly, or the

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Speaker 1: mention of Thanksgiving had brought up before him with startling vividness,

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Speaker 1: the picture of a bright dining room in a certain

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Speaker 1: surrounded by smiling faces, and the contrast was almost more

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Speaker 1: than he could bear. Well, don't be down on your luck, boy,

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Speaker 1: to eat, replied the other cheerfully. We haven't struck it yet,

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Speaker 1: but it's always darkest just before dawn. You know, we

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Speaker 1: may be millionaires before this time tomorrow, we may, answered Jack,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't look as if he had much hope

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Speaker 1: of it. A few hours later, the occupants of the

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Speaker 1: But that hen was never meant to be eaten. Just

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Speaker 1: at that moment, the door was pushed open. A box

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Speaker 1: sat down on the floor, and a rough voice announced,

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Speaker 1: a box for Jack Jones. Jack stood up for me.

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Speaker 1: There must be a mistake. Nobody knows, he stopped, for

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Speaker 1: he had not mentioned that his name was assumed. Likely not,

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Speaker 1: said the man with a knowing look. But folks have

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Speaker 1: a mighty strange way of finding out, and he shut

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Speaker 1: as if he had lost his wits. It could not

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Speaker 1: When he left the house one night six months ago.

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Speaker 1: He had deliberately run away because he felt that he

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Speaker 1: was not being treated how he felt a sixteen year

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Speaker 1: father he could do more. Why don't you open it?

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Speaker 1: The gruff but not unkind voice of his roommate, whom

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Speaker 1: he called Tom, woke him up. Maybe there's something in

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Speaker 1: it better than sage. Hen trying to raise a smile,

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Speaker 1: but no smile followed. Mechanically, Jack sought the tools to

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Speaker 1: open it, and in a few moments the cover was off.

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Speaker 2: It was from home.

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Speaker 1: On the very top was a letter addressed to Jack

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Speaker 1: Jarvis in a hand that he knew well. He quickly

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Speaker 1: stuffed it into his pocket. Unopened, the layers of paper

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Speaker 1: were removed, and as each one was thrown off, something

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Speaker 1: new appeared. Not a word was spoken, but the kettle

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Speaker 1: Tom as the bench began to fill up. A jar

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Speaker 1: a plum pudding, a chicken pie, and lastly, in its

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Speaker 1: white linen wrapper, the turkey we saw browning in that

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Speaker 1: far off New England kitchen. As one by one these

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Speaker 1: things were lifted out and placed on the bench, a

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Speaker 1: deep silence reigned in the cabin. Jack had choked at

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Speaker 1: the sight of the letter, and memories of days far

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Speaker 1: different from these checked, even Tom's usually lively tongue.

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Speaker 2: A strange unpacking.

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Speaker 1: It was, how different from the joyful packing at the

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Speaker 2: When all was done and.

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Speaker 1: The silence grew painful, Jack blurted out, help yourself, and

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Speaker 1: bustled about, busily gathering up the papers and folding them

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Speaker 1: and stuffing them back in the box, as though he

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Speaker 1: don't feel hungry. Believe I'll go out and see what

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Speaker 2: Her heart I wished for.

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Speaker 3: A close, said you. Anywhere, any time justice