erests.

"If I judge this man aright," replied the abbot, "he will remember what
he owes us."

In fact, this day happening to be the anniversary of the marriage, a
monk came to announce that the goldsmith begged his benefactor to
receive him. When he appeared in the hall where the abbot was, he
displayed two marvellous caskets, which, from that time, no workman has
surpassed in any place of the Christian world, and which were called
"the vow of perseverance in love." These two treasures are, as every one
knows, placed on the high altar of the church; and are judged to be of
inestimable workmanship, since the goldsmith had expended all he had on
them.

Nevertheless, this gift, instead of emptying his treasury, filled it to
overflowing, because it so increased his fame and profits that he was
able to purchase broad lands and letters of nobility, and founded the
house of Anseau, which has since been in high honor in Touraine.

MISS HENDERSON'S THANKSGIVING DAY.

BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.

THANKSGIVING day dawned clearly and frostily upon the little village of
Castleton Hollow. The stage, which connected daily with the nearest
railroad station--for as yet Castleton Hollow had not arrived at the
dignity of one of its own--came fully freighted both inside and out.
There were children and children's children, who, in the pursuit of
fortune, had strayed away from the homes where they first saw the light,
but who were now returning to revive around the old familiar hearth the
associations and recollections of their early days.

Great were the preparations among the housewives of Castleton Hollow.
That must indeed be a poor household which, on this occasion, could not
boast its turkey and plum pudding, those well-established dishes, not to
mention its long rows of pies--apple, mince and pumpkin--wherewith the
Thanksgiving board is wont to be garnished.

But it is not of the households generally that I propose to speak. Let
the reader accompany me in imagination to a rather prim-looking brick
mansion, situated on the principal street, but at some distance back,
being separated from it by a front yard. Between this yard and the
fence, ran a prim-looking hedge of very formal cut, being cropped in the
most careful manner, lest one twig should by chance have the presumption
to grow higher than its kindred. It was a two story house, containing in
each story one room on either side of the front door, making, of course,
fou