| Show Ye Council Eats Right b T Well Tell ell After Ye Slick Barter Deer Is Thanksgiving Meal Mealand and Indian Is Goat AMERICANS this IF Thanksgiving are well able to appease both their con con- consciences consciences sciences and their appetites their moral dexterity is no better than that of their fore fore- forebears forebears bears on the town council at Danvers Mass in the year 1714 Venison rather than turkey made up the piece de resistance on a Thanksgiving feast there but religious complications arose as re- re recorded recorded corded by Rev Lawrence Co- Co Conant Conant nant of that city After ye e blessing was craved by Mr Garrich ot of Wrentham word came that ye buck was shot on ye I PEQUOT VE WILL GET FORTY STRIPES ER AND VE E COUNCIL WILL WIl- EAT YE DEER n conscience Mr Shepards Shepard's conscience was ten ten- tender tender der and so was poor Pequot's back Lords Lord's day by Pequot an Indian who came to Mr Epes with a lye in his mouth like Ananias of old Ye council therefore refused to eat ye venison but it was afterward decided that Pequot should receive forty stripes save one for lying and profaning ye Lords Lord's day restore Mr Epes ye cost ot of ye deer and con con- this a just and rightful sen sen- sentence tence on ye heathen and that a blessing had been craved on ye meat ye council aU all partook of it but Mr Shepard whose conscience was tender on ye point ot of ye e veni- veni venison son In nearby Boston a few years lat er cr the arrival of autumn with its storing ot of the winter supply of salt QS 0 7 i iY Y k 9 iii i il l 1 i Bear ear meat Is no longer er generally available for the Thanksgiving Thanks dinner din din- dinner ner pork brought mingled thanksgiving and chagrin to a boy named Benja- Benja Benjamin Benjamin min Franklin who often became restless during the long graces which accompanied Massachusetts meals So one day after the pork had been dutifully stored away he suggested that if his father would only say grace over the whole cask once for all it would be a avast avast vast saving ot of time In the latter half of the same century whenever a feast was in order in the back country ot of Vir- Vir Virginia Virginia ginia and the Carolinas young Dan iel idl Boone or some other hunter would go out to find venison or bear meat to mix with pork in the habitual habitual al great stews stew ot of such a celebration celebration tion With it were served roast pork or bear or broiled venIson Bear and venison are no longer generally available for the Thanks Thanks- Thanksgiving Thanksgiving giving dinner but turkey is still one ot of its mainstays I |
