02232cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000160007804000110009404100170010505000070012210000370012924500320016626400510019830000470024933600260029633700260032233800360034850000310038450801760041552010150059153400640160665300180167065300210168865300390170985600720174885600430182099900190186377302UtSlPG20260610134806.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  atmp92008931  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aCornish, Mary Taylor,d1877-194010aTommy's Thanksgiving dinner 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-23  aCharlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aTommy's Thanksgiving dinner by Mary Taylor Cornish is a short children’s play written in the early 20th century. It presents a light holiday fantasy for school performance, personifying Thanksgiving dishes and a cook book to explore the joy of a family feast and the value of learning how to cook.

Tommy, eager for Grandma’s Thanksgiving dinner and disappointed by his sister Kate’s book-led cooking, falls asleep and dreams a parade of foods: Mr. Bowl of Soup, Mr. Turkey, the Cranberry Maids, Mr. Irish Potato, Miss White Onion, Cabbage, and Peter Pumpkin, each introducing themselves in playful verse. They fret amiably about becoming dinner and pledge harmony before Miss Cook Book arrives to speak plainly, praising domestic science and reminding Tommy that good meals come from knowledge as well as tradition. The foods sing farewell, promising to return “in a silver spoon” at noon, and Tommy wakes with a grin and dashes off to meet the holiday. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cChicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1925  aOne-act plays  aChildren's plays  aThanksgiving Day -- Juvenile drama4 uhttps://archive.org/details/tommysthanksgivi00corn/page/n1/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77302  c118022d118022