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Show a while that evry famly had from ten to forty dogs. The Igrotes wlch live in the Phlll-peen Phlll-peen Hands eat dogs thay have so many, also people huntin the north pole eet dogs. Unkel Bill sez he dont see why they cant find the north pole if they will only take a lot of saint burnard dogs along Instead of poodles, in the north pole the nltes is 6 months long & when people go out to spend the evenln they haf to ' pack thare trunks for a long visit. We should all be vary thankful that we dont live in the Philipeen Hands or hunt the north pole, in the Phil- HANKSGIVIN is the time when turkeys go up to thirty cents a pound and evrybody begins to think v that before long they will hafto go broke buyin Christmas presents. Thare are lots of peo-pie peo-pie in the world that Is too poor to be able to let the market-man market-man skin them out of thirty cents a pound for turkeys, & so they otto be vary thankful. Thanksgivin started away long ago when thare wasent but a few people In this country aHd they lived away down east and thare wasent any rale-rodes rale-rodes so thay couldn't go home for Thanksgivin dinner, so thay concluded to have thare own Thanksgivin. Thay was colonists and they colonlsted oh Plimuth Rock, wlch Is on the edge of the ocean and costs you twenty Ave cents to see unless your ancestors come over on the Mayflower. May-flower. The Mayflower was a boat that come from England once with a lot of people in It and a lot of clocks and spinnln wheels and things. Unkel Bill sez thare must have been a whole fleet of Mayflowers, becos he has seen enough clocks alone to fill 2 ships hisself. if your aucesters come over In the Mayflower your ma has got the right to sniff at somebody else that only got Into this country by waitln till thay could come over in seven days and play poker all the way. Thare Is also the dotters of the revolution and some more dotters of the revolution and thay have conventions conven-tions every year and thare pictures is In the papers, & thay almost have Gtes with each other electln presdents and things. Unkel Bill sez thay are like a sewln society accordln to Hoyle. but the people' that got up Thanksgivin Thanks-givin was here before the revolution, and they dldent have enough to eat all one year. Thay rote home for munney, but dldnent get any and so thay had to go to work and rase crops and animals to eat. Unkel BUI sez they was so poor for j "Unkel Bill Sez." peen slands is the revolution of the natives & In the north1 pole is the revolution rev-olution of the erth on its axes, but thay dont have dotters of the revolution revolu-tion anywhere but rite here. Turkeys is good eetin & so is mints" pie & so is plum pudlng & so is cram-Lerry cram-Lerry boss. I so I think wo can all be thankful or at least mutch obliged. |