Tommy's Thanksgiving dinner : a play for small actors by Mary Taylor Cornish
Ossianic controversy by Rev. John M'Pherson is a historical-literary study written in the late 19th century. The book likely examines the debates surrounding the authenticity of the Ossian poems, assessing Gaelic sources, James Macpherson’s claims, and the broader cultural and scholarly arguments they sparked. The text provided is a short children’s play about a boy, Tommy, eagerly anticipating Thanksgiving at his grandmother’s house because he prefers her intuitive cooking to his sister
Kate’s cookbook methods. He dozes off and dreams that the holiday dishes and ingredients—Mr. Bowl of Soup, Mr. Turkey, the Cranberry Maids, Mr. Irish Potato, Miss White Onion, Cabbage, and Peter Pumpkin—parade onto the stage, each introducing themselves in jaunty rhymes. Miss Cook Book interrupts to defend measured, informed cooking and the value of domestic science, gently correcting the notion that good meals come only from “cooking out of one’s head.” The foods then march off singing they will return “in a silver spoon,” and Tommy wakes up, excited and hungry, ready to dash off for his Thanksgiving feast. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Cornish, Mary Taylor, 1877-1940 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | tmp92008931 |
| Title | Tommy's Thanksgiving dinner : a play for small actors |
| Original Publication | Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1925. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | One-act plays |
| Subject | Children's plays |
| Subject | Thanksgiving Day -- Juvenile drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77302 |
| Release Date | Nov 23, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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