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Show GIVE THANKS FOR "GOODLY TURKEY" I" "f OW well " I remember that old Thanksgiving dinner! Father at one end' and mother at the other end, the children between and wondering if father ever will get done carving the turkey. The day before at school, we had learned that Greece was south of Turkey, but on the table we found that Turkey was bounded by grease. The brown surface waited for the fork to plunge astride the breastbone, and with knife sharpened on the jambs of the fireplace, lay bare the folds of white meat. Give to the disposed to be sentimental, senti-mental, the heart. Give to the one disposed dis-posed to music the drumstick. Give to the one disposed to theological discussion dis-cussion the "parson's nose." Then the pies! For the most part a lost art. What mince pies! in which you had all confidence, fashioned from all rich ingredients, instead of miscellaneous miscel-laneous leavings which are only short of glorified hash! Not mince pies with profound mysteries of origin! But mother made them, and laid the lower crust and the upper crust, v;th here and there a puncture by the fork to let you look through the light and flaky surface into the suhstance beneath. T. DeWitt,Talmage, D. D. |