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Thanksgiving with the Gillises

The Life of Riley · November 29, 1947 · 29 min · 4,486 words

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Now Thursday was Thanksgiving as that fresh cranberry stain on your vest will indicate, and today we find Chester A. Riley thankful that it's all over. But a few days before Thanksgiving, Riley was singing a different tune as he was walking home from work with his friend, neighbor and co-worker Jim Gillis.

Hey, wait Gillis, let's go down this street here. I gotta pick up our Thanksgiving turkey at Al's meat market. Oh, I'm glad you reminded me. My honeybee told me to pick Al's up. Yeah, great guy Al.

You know, in our house, all four of us like the drumstick, and nobody likes the, uh, the Whatchamacallit. So, this year, Al promised to give me a turkey with four drumsticks. How was that possible, one taking with four drumsticks?

Without, that's easy. You, you, you, some other customer will get a turkey with no drumsticks and two Whatchamacallit. You know, I love Thanksgiving, Gillis. Oh, me too. It's nice to stay home and bask on the bosom of the family.

Yeah, we're pretty lucky compared to other guys. We got something to be thankful for. After all, we've got our health. Yeah, that's something to be thankful for. We each got fine kids who are married to two fine, plain, home, loving girls.

Yeah, that's something to be thankful for. You know, Gillis, we might have married a couple of flashy Danes just for their looks. You know what to type, those blushes, blondes with those gorgeous figures, but we didn't.

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