Show thanksgiving OF OLD As I 1 y are recalled lip i like gonn ty aud allt by lur her lc de gruer alc suns N Y bun sun nov 28 this ha hoo been about the snappiest day weve lind had this month abid betth yet there ere banit been aro frost t in it to make a barefooted boy curl ilia his toes the 1 sheriff ai was di disgusted gusteal there had been such a lung long spell of warin weather find soggy wrather arund and wet viet weather that everybody wils is blue venison freeze nud was hanging up all town aul and almust spoiling not cading to have them bhairo the P same lne I 1 ignominious gilo 11 liotis late neither the tile old S t tier the county clerk the sheriff Sh crill nor the boys had ventured to decapitate ca petate turkeys T today lay and yesterday to be sure had little snap in bliem but nut not enough en ugh to count and they came too late anyhow 60 ay iy with venison a degree too gamy and turk turkeys e y S unfrozen I 1 rozen tile chief fact factora orsin in a sue suo cea cental ful aud satisfactory thanksgiving dinner i in u pike county were lacking hence everybody had th the bines at least e every v cry one except llie the new school teacher and as ho lie was boardl boarding Dg and had got so used to taking every thing it came and always expecting the worst wora such a little thing as a freshly killed turkey for a it thanksgiving ig dinner worry him in the least wo vc used to have such betwixt and ani between weather as this at thanksgiving time when I 1 was a boy said the county clerk course yo ye said the squire 1 I tell ye ite its cause weve dec dee generated its cause weve kloppe I 1 over an gone gon oclean dean back 1 on I good ole a tic principles who ever heard 0 havin sich weather neather ce ez this for thank agibin timo in the days 0 Guvi guvnor ir wolfe an genrl jackson when them ole war boes hos aps ops sive ive it out that we was hev bev shanks civill ye kill kinais jis bate the tile las as gal lu 1 button on ye yo pants that wo we was hev thanksgiving Thanks givin me an all you don t often grce gree squire taid the old settler but iiii ili with you now in 1840 an dupard w en wolfe were guv nor they never wa ua pech sech thanks gr arvin rin ever ever beerd on 1 in 1840 un dupard up ard said the tile squire Squi rc wolfe want arter 40 ile want guvnor in 40 come to think ou on it his ti time e run out jn 39 a wolfe want guvnor in 46 40 exclaimed the old settler li wolfe want why squire ye ez well eay say I 1 wa wil nt 11 burn born in 13 agosh tl mighty I 1 his lime time run out ut in 36 how ltd the squire do you beauter set an tell me that I 1 dont remember the year that ebenezer spring were convict t td d u liosi a teal the old set tier emphasizing his remarks as u usual ual with his cane an alf that tile an all squire fogila 0 mroe county didt go gosve olo guvnor Gi ivnor wolf to git him pardoned pardon fd cause the hoss tie lie stole 1 were blind b gosh an all to a indig whig az voted agin the guan r do you mean t to tell me that I 1 dont remember that and that the year danl e 1 I mea acanter titer say sav said the amu squire ire that you nor nobody elso else ll 11 never go to s ee Guv guvnor wolfe i in n 39 his time run out how many times you want roo mo to lell tell you want ebenezer Eben czer spring your cousin coush squire shouted the old settler yea yes ho lie were said the squire but an ali lie steal that blind hos an all git sent to states prison fur it what if ho he did does that an ali did ho to git pardoned no but that got to do yar be shouted the old ss S settler atler triumphantly yar fir be yer cousin aou in stole a hoss got convicted convict edan an git no pardon an yit you stan sian up un till argy will with me tile bg oali hut hot I 1 dont know what I 1 primy fishy evidence cv ev dence that colfo were guiver from front 40 dupard or you you woul dili t try to say lie want jis cause you led leel mad agin allin 0 him fur not pard pardi nin out ver coll cauin cu uin ill I 1 this logic of the old S alers had anything auy thing but the cneal of convincing vils eing ibe the kirev squire and find lie waa was about to open with hot shot when tho th county clerk baid taid wolfe was elected governor in 1829 so both of you old fellows with long hit had better bit sit down awhile and see what good ton tor aj mr nu squire ire exclaimed tile old settler 1 I knowd durn well yer was out 0 yer reckoning rec konin I 1 tell ye when I 1 fay say a fell feller tr s wrong ye kin set u it down fur a fac that he lie is wang 1 we adl I 1 said tile squire bistry hi stry ie is bistry hi stry an bacs is life e an liu I 1 guess the two on lent cm mils mus groo en if this ant for I 1 know it baa bo fac t that h at it it were the full fall 0 29 that my father missed four loll 1011 tin till gittin out u carch avar var tit 1 ly auti un ou in peleg dabbled Dib Dabb blea lel cla r lar an that were the fall wolff wolfe were lecter darn durn it major I 1 I 1 fargot peleg were your our uncle or I 1 a said fl othin bout iti it and the way the squire fr quire winked at the and the tile boys showed plainly that lie was sorry before the old settlers Sett lera sleeping lion was fairly roused the new school teacher sa id well there might be worse things than having such weather as this for thanksgiving it is better to 0 o have bad weather and something to cat tha than n the tile B finest debt of bracing w weather cather and a lean larder 1 I duntin but bia what yer bout right my bon son paid said the old welder frost makes the blood bop skip a an jump lp fill anias its a bushel 0 doe docton ora a tuff if e when its due lue but fur a diet to put I 1 meat 11 cat on yer bones bonds agosh the shank of a turkey or a hunk 0 spare rib is w uth a him turn at the hull durn artic artie region regions there was once a man lived in in a little town where I 1 came fron frodi over on the life Tio tionetta nerta said the new school teacher by the naino tiame ot of jansen jacobs thu was fifty years agi ago or more he ile had the tile name of being eing 1 the tile meanest and hardest mail t there here was in in the whole country lie was a great cater enter and a great hunter people u used ed to bay say that it was a 03 millon thin tiling for him to cat z s whole turkey and that his 1 wife e always prepared his meals as if she was getting them ready for four men he never allow allowed ef any of his family to cat until lie was through and if he lie was in in a bad humor I 1 hercado e made them wait until he had satisfied the tile appetites ot his half dozen dogs from front the table he a very cheerful man mail nor a very popular one but that didot disturb hlin him alev any one season there was a terrible flood in the tionesta and a great deal teal ot lumber was carried away several null mill hands were drowned in trying to have save property I 1 leavin leaving t large families niiles lu in in almost destitute desti tut e circumstances when thanksgiving in time came round some sonic of the folks thought it would be a good thing to make up a wagon load of things and distribute them among these thee families as otherwise their chanc s of having much to cat eat on tin thank i giving would he be rather slim besides that almost every i man in in the volunteered t to cho chop p wood houra on qu I 1 thanksgiving ni orning for the tile benefit ot of thee families the committee m attee was certain that mean a as he wa 1 vs janeen jacobs would do a little soine something thim in a arse like tins this when asked it lie would biye a turkey or a piece of venison or anything he pleased he lie said wall ive got some turkeys an all ive got some benzin an iv ive got some bar har meat ment an I 1 got go c plenty on oil cm em an ali PT im ginter keep cm em if it a any n body I 1 but put me an my folks widders or no widders or hotd or no orf ints bocks their teeth in 1 any I ay of cm em till be lecausi be causi 1 I dont gitin git in from froin the woods thanks 9 gijiu 1 vi 11 to see to it an all id like to see e the powder stop me tile aiom doin ot of it lz ez fur cutting w wod od id rather be fetched in fit a bar thanks giving niora morning n jansen r started arted t for fur the woods as usual he lie told his wife he lie wanted his hii dinner ready by 12 what I 1 dont cat twist twixt twelve an QUO one r aid raid he lie ye kin kill divide twixt afi an the tile poor and he be went out laughing at the good joke he ie thought lie had made will well 12 came but no jansen one and still no jansen this was most remarkable as he had hd levei never been u kon koewn wit to ba be a behind his time thile but his good wife kept hii li n dinner hot and ed her own and her dill chil drena drens cravings clavings cravi I 1 fur its savory viau viands i di two and still DO no jansen 11 1 mother 11 other said young peter futer jacobs a lad of 15 dont lets wait 1 no io longer dad did s struck the trail of a at deer an hell toller fuller ia is till h ho 0 gits it anyhow thatchat that what lie didas eat twixt twelve an ono one we re could dis an all the tile poor lett take lum him at lus his word an pitch in ill stan by ye vc in oilier that was enough and they did pitch in in Ja lausena Jau sena family had hall buch a dinauer as they never find before and anti the tile widders an or lints had hall no such a aan treat althae that da lay as camo fron fro n jansen jacob s table after all ull for fur mrs jamen ila tile a fatuous cook cunk alil man nian jacobs como come home that night nur nor the next day nor tho nezi night flight and then his wife began to feel feet alarmed lur for hufcut ho lie her husband and the fetherof her etil S soshe s he pre upon a party of neighbors to go in ill search ut ot tum him much their will four miles back in in the they linn him it seeing there had been a power that had stopped jacien from gilling buat irom irow the woods and fluid preventing euti fiig any one ele elbe irom from their tetti teeth in hu his good thing mid and as lie had vowed that lie would rather be lu it war b ar trap trail that chop chul waud lor jor ins his unfortunate ills choice hail avell given licin jansen wi w 1 a bluso ILI une ulle ofilio ot tn war W ar dewi lie hud bud aau thereto there to it ivr for the big bight litand and while inside had in some nay say sprung tho the fall and down came the thel heavy leavy door that could only be opened from froin the outside and jansens visions of chauk thanksgiving giving dinner vanished when taken out lie was nearly dead lead from front cold and hunger he ile was brought safely nind again however but the jansen jacobs of old was waa gone the poor never had a better friend than he was ever after and he be was the tile kindest man to hid his family to the tile lay of his death carved him right said eaid one orte of the boys jansens family had suni thin to be thankful fur but what have wo we got to be thankful fur 1 ur this year ear wall boy bove said the old settler hiie one thing an that ia L we aint none on oil us ben called on to leave no widders nor us sence 1 as year this time I 1 sa says to ariar this n at br e f w ariar says 1 I im durn thankful fur one thing anyhow an that is says 1 I that yol yoa wont be goin to maetin roo etin onor t bior with widders figins on oil ye be hey she bourin out the coffee ye be hey says rhe elie Wall says she sila silas ive often orten heerd that it dont take much to make some folks thankful saye says she pin pill dreadful feerd the roomy is ketchin on to lilii liliian ar agin aid said the old settler as he lie took too k his nightcap with the rest ret and toddled homeward |