The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-05
agricultural department.
BY ALBERT CHAPMAN,
New Eng and Farm Buiiud.
RE- THANKSGIVING

lime THE sfGnT BEFORE THANKSGIVING.
Aunt Jerusba sat late by the hot kitchen stove
And her iancies were truant, and bound to
rove
But her tyelids grew wet with unbidden tears,
As her thoughts went wandering back through
the years.
"Ah, woll,' she sighed low, in weary way,
Tomorrow will bring US Thanksgiving bay
And the house is cranned full Of all good
cheer
For the old and the young who'll bo crowding
here.
Under stacks of minneapolis bend the buttery
shelves,
And cakes, where tho children can stuff them
selves,
From the wide-mopthed crock, just behind the
door,
Till they whimper because they can't hold airy
more.
Aud there's turkey aud chicken-pe, beef
tongue, and ham,
Cider, barberry sauce, and blackberry jam;
And lots Of everything else you can think
That company looks for to eat and drink
III try to be cheerful and laugh with the reat
But it's climbin' up hill with dull heart to
Jest;
And mine has been good as dead years gone, be
sure,
For was the oldest, and father was poor
And so for my brothers and sisters toied,
Til my temp,r was frette |, my good /, ois ives
spoiled;
And they twittel tue once and yet was still
young,
That my face was as ugly and sharp rs my
tongue.
20 I'd never the chances my sisters all had:
was always too b sy to chat with u lad;
They was all married young, bein pretty, you
see,
But nobody never came courtin' to inc.
And so--well we'll, Brothers considrote and
kind,
And his wife--well, there isn't a great deal to
mind
And he gives ine good home, but yet I'd much
rather
Have a man of my own than the very besr
brother.
A man spills by alone, they do say,
And with woman, I'm fraid, it is much the
same way
But, though 1 am always as w.llin' as can be,
Here Pun uskin' myself yet ~ here can til.
man be p
It's a sin and shame to keep lone women
watin,
That amt noWay5 averso TO the fashion OF ma
tin;
And if men arc too stingy or bashful to tell
'em,
The law ought tie stop in, and just take and
compel en-.
Aud | notice whenever the law interferes,
Its always to COME between sweetharts and
dears;
Twas just so in old times, when We was all
gnls,
Fellers had to 30 careful in 1irtin, with curls
For the s'lectmen was always mousn about,
10 see just how late the young people staid
out;
and man could be whipped through the tow
Of i Monday
For kissing his sweetheart or wife of Sun
asy,
[ don't want no such laws But if I'd my owl
way
Thereu not be an old bachelor after today;
For, whenever Il soul of 'em reached fvrty-two
I'd have EN- all put up and sold at venduo.
And there amt the least doubt 'twonld be pop.
lar with those
Who are bachort because they haint spuuk t,
propose,
Az is mostly the case; snd then, as for the bid
The old maids should take precedence over thu
widders.
All we'll, it's the dream Of silly old brain;
What's the use of such fancies, that only give
pain'
Good gracious the clocks striking ten, IS I'm
alive,
And l must be up in tie mornip' at Eve.
Pr'sps it's better as It's, know, after all.
said,
But, If some one came courtin', and asked mo t.
wed,
I amt bit certain as sure as I'm sttin
In this creaky old chair, as I'd give him the
mitteu"