Show thanksgiving I 1 V ing is a name given to out our national festival it had its beginning in the day of the pilgrim Fai fathers fiers after their first harvest they decided to have a celebration similar in character to the hebrew feast of tabernacles after governor william bradford and his little company had gathered a meager crop and death often visiting their infant colony with all these afflictions they found cause for thanksgiving the governor sent four men to the woods to hunt wild turkeys when the col invited MAsa massasoit and 90 of his warriors to share in the celebrations the indians brot in oysters as their contribution to the festival these oysters were the first whick the white people had ever seen this dinner was eaten in plymouth on saturday in november of 1621 our first american thanksgiving thus it began with the singing of hymns and words ci of f praise and prayer the descendants odthe puritans considered the dayl day ahola a holy day and not a holiday j though thou gh our giving rny may be kept as becomes the people of this progressive day aiu aric bage wib ao to be hoped that th etrue spi thanksgiving will prevail with us as in the days of yore |