Just wait , though . I 'll soon be grown up , and then you and these greedy youngsters shall feast on turkey every day of the year . Hello , Teddy , have you got on your feet again ? Mind , sir , no more blubbering ! '' `` When I 'm a man , '' announced Teddy with dignity , `` I 'd just like to see you put me in the porch . And I mean to have turkey all the time and I wo n't give you any , either . '' `` All right , you greedy small boy . Only take yourself off to school now , and let us hear no more squeaks out of you . Tramp , all of you , and give Mother a chance to get her work done . '' Mrs. Grant got up and fell to work at her dishes with a brighter face . `` Well , we must n't give in ; perhaps things will be better after a while . I 'll make a famous bread pudding , and you can boil some molasses taffy and ask those little Smithsons next door to help you pull it . They wo n't whine for turkey , I 'll be bound . I do n't suppose they ever tasted such a thing in all their lives . If I could afford it , I 'd have had them all in to dinner with us . That sermon Mr. Evans preached last Sunday kind of stirred me up . He said we ought always to try and share our Christmas joy with some poor souls who had never learned the meaning of the word . I ca n't do as much as I 'd like to . It was different when your father was alive . '' The noisy group grew silent as they always did when their father was spoken of .
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