Show anglina 10 angi giu ina ma QS A HATE em good old irb IE delcou con phipps was in ili the fyfo habit it ot of saying whenever jf he saw an automobile a uto mobile air 91 31 i ioni from tile the arst moment the new invention appeared his steady stead old horses almost to death and breaking up one 0 of his bi best est tarm farm wagons deacon phipps had no patience with any kind ot of a motor vehicle As time went on and many ot of his neighbors bought automobiles his horses became wonted to them and turned never a hair leair when they whizzed by but tho the good deacon did not relent whenever one passed him on the road throwing pei perhaps haps a shower ot of dust or mud upon his modest carriage and leaving behind it a trall trail ot of Il III lodor odor he would mutter under his breath words which no good deacon should ever ever use the deacon and his wife grow grew old and their six children all married excepting rhoda the youngest who stayed at homo home to taki take care of them the tour four sons were prospera aa sad and the older daughter h had a d married a very tory rich nian man and lived one hundred or more miles away two sons had become farmers and lived quite near one was a merchant in a large town perhaps fifty miles distant the fourth one van a minister settled in ID the silme same town with the merchant brother to the infinite disgust of deacon philips all of these son excepting tile the minister owned automobiles and ald Thon thomas las tile the mci wel chant actually sported three or four when his father found this out buthe he came almost to the point of t breaking off 0 relations with chonin s in the he rid 0 d lays days the family had used io 10 gather on oil the day before thanksgiving and tile tho large airy chambers of the ample phipps homestead could accommodate them all ail now the children and the grandchildren had increased in number until such gatherings were no longer possible 1 ifie he uncles and aunts had died or had become be come infirm there had been seme scale pretty lonely thanksgivings at the hospitable phipps farm it was during the week before the great day that deacon phipps was sit ting before the open iro fire in his big comfortable groom and pondering oter oner this melancholy tact fact taint right lie ho grumbled to his gentle who mho sat knitting beside him taint right to have families scattered so at thanksgiving I 1 wish we could get our folks all together susan Susa i just once more here you an I 1 are vorgin onto eighty an we faint had our folks all together for goin on ten ye year arnow now heres this great house dinin room fit to seat thirty an this room to spill over into tor for as many more and countin count ln slater sister judy an brother ben all the sister an brother weve got left bless em except betty an ashes tied to the house by her broken hip an always will be its fill likely fill all put together they only count up fortine for forty tyne one but we cant got get em cm together well lie mused on well try to get a dozen or so ot of em an call it a f family amily party but you an I 1 an rhody an the tha help are strong etrone an hearty an could take care of 0 em all it they would only come but I 1 dont see any way no there any way sighed his hie good va wite if e but you oughter aughter complain plain silas yeve got a sight 0 blessings bles sins sias an wed oughter aughter think 0 those weve got an not hanker after those we cant have which was good doctrine though it could not quite stop the deacons grumbling miss rhoda phipps was quite equal to the task ot of taking care of the old people A strong woman helped her in the kitchen and there were neighbors near by who were ready to do extra work word job the good middle aged man who had taken care of 0 the horses for many a year was no mean hand at household as well as stable service and at this special thanks giving elving season miss rhoda kept them all busy until the pantries were piled thick with dainties mrs phipps thought that there was too much food prepared why rhoda what do we want anant with twenty apple pies and six tur keys and ten chicken pies and a gallon galion of cranberry sauce she cried t I 1 A 4 i deacon phipps was restlessly peering up the road WO we never in the world can eat them up before they spoil As near as I 1 can make out there are only about ten coming anyway but miss rhoda said she would risk it and laughed her mother back to her post beside the fire by ten thanksgiving morning the whole farmhouse was in ep eckless order aunt judy and uncle ben bell had bad promised to come early and so had son john and his family deacon phipps was restlessly peering up the road long before the proper time and mrs phipps was almost as ampa I 1 lent flent as he Presen presently over the brow of the hill came a great touring car the deacon scowled but as he heard first the sweet gabriel horn hom and then on rough roar of the klaxon his face relaxed a little who were in the car it was not the family of 0 son john surely it was wag thomas and his minister brother with several members ot their faint families lies and mrs phipps fairly cried with loy joy as she saw baw them there la is another load just behind us they shouted as they drew up before the door another load there were halt half 2 a dozen loads before the final toll was taken and when two strong big phipps sons lifted out from one of the cushioned limousines poor lame old aunt betty who could not have dreamed of coming in anything except such a softly padded vehicle the tears wore were dropping all over mother phipps best beat white lace jabot such a thanksgiving every single one of the phipps children and grandchildren was there the good deacons voice trembled with loy joy as he asked the blessing and poured out his thanks before god dut but you know father said thomas phipps slyly there are several ot of us who possibly have come it if it been tor for those automobiles that y you on hate so the deacon and bristled a little but in the face of the loud merriment which greeted this per perfectly feet true reminder his few rather growling remarks could not be heard yo you u know there really tant lent much danger from automobiles nowadays ft father ller proceeded thomas phipps diplomatically the chauffeurs are better taught than they used to be the machines can be stopped more trally oh in every way they are improved improved Improve dt shouted the deacon unable to restrain himself longer you cant pick up a paper without about some shochin kin accident through I 1 carelessly driven automobiles improved they cant be ba improved they are inventions of the evil one himself you cant tell me I 1 read the he papers wait a minute father laughed thomas amid the eager looks of all the others who were evidently full of 0 pup suppressed pressed excitement we well we we feel as though we all wanted to see more of you and aad mother than we have seen lately but we dont feel sure gate to have you traveling around on the me cars cara any more and your horses cant take you as tar far as ab most moat of us live so we have clubbed together and have bought you the strongest and handsomest limousine car that wo we could find we have put a sun sum at interest in n the bank to pay tor the keeping of t and wet we have had job taught how to run it you know he be has baa been beem away p a good many afternoons well he has been learning how to 0 ran nm 2 a car ar you can trust him and now you and mother can heat beat a big soapstone and climb into your limousine and come and see us all aud arns we you to do it now what do you say to that father what could the old man say he turned red stammered looked at hla his wife who was smiling signify significantly and then had the grace to accept and thank his children for their munificent gift AU an ot of deacon phipps neighbors laugh a little when they see him riding by in his splendid automobile but they are w wise ise enough to sober up when 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