The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-11-25
CORRESPONDENCE.
Arkansas THANKxGIvuNG.
BY CARLOS SoGGs.

N NAhboo SO"es-
The leafess trees
Only spoke in whispers; the Autumn breeze
Silently tucked the leaves in their bed,
And erept er the prairie and through the corn.
And up by the graveyard where twas dark and forlorn
Then onward and onward, until the morn
Cleaned in the East with sky of red
When it met wild and rowing lEllus
Who laughed as he carried him of On his win.
And who, with his whistle made the woods ring
And seemed as merry and frolesome as Comus.
A long. curling blue ribbon of smoke
From the chimney o'ertoppng the house the hill,
Ascends to the cerulean vaults overhead
The rising suns glorious rays are shed
Der the wide prairie; the ripping rill
From its frozen slumber has awoke.
John DObsOn wears happy smile he strides into the
room,
which has just been cleaned and busted by one whom
He vowed watch and protect until his final doom,
And who has shared with him his hours of light and gloom
And he wipes from his sunken eye he thinks of
the long ago,
woe;
Then he his cribs of and shocks out in the
field
And remembers how not long ago he thought his fate
was sealed
And how certain he felt that dear old would
penny yield.
John what's the matter r. said Lucy; you look sad
As deacon at funeral should think you'd feel glad
When to-day is the time for glorious thanksgiving"
II feel well enough, and am quite happy, think;
was only meditating how near the brink
OF starvation we've lately been living"
By three o'clock in the afternoon table
With almost evry kind of dish appetite could wish for
variety of vege tables and Of monstrons size,
Fixed up in a style could despise
A solitary turkey BY fat ducks was surrounded.
And on all sides geese and chickens abpunded
Like guards watching treasure in time of war
As if they feared he would take wings and soar.
Nor beginning.
And could eat some of each and contend
He was not SHINING.
After dinner over people leaned back in their
chairs,
And listened ntenty while Dobson spoke something OF
Kansas aifIrs.
We'll neshbors," he began Il am glad to see you all
here.
1 hope you've enjoyed Thanksgiving well as have
this year.
As look around this table there faces that
to miss;
Come Brakeey You tell what is the the meaning
of this"
Yes" said Brakeley "the friends You miss are now
breathing California air.
They left poor Kansas the time she had the hopper
scare"
The hoppers used us roughly" said Dobson, all
can testify.
And confess that felt time, II should
like to fy
To good place where such great pests entirely
unknown,
And live undisurbed by anything like King upon his
throne;
But I'm glad no one would buy my little farm last
Spring. %
For wouldn't sell it any price, matter what twould
bring.
When think how we all together fought the grasshop
pers last May,
wonder that all here thank the Lord today.
fancy them now in burning heaps upon the ground
Or pershng by the Thousand in the holes dug around
After they'd gone, work and sowed fields
again,
And did not get discouraged like the greater portion of
And grain is gathered and stored where It's
And where twill the the chnchbug or grasshoppers
allure.
And now that we've lived all through it and come out
clean and bright
Let's give thanks God above U.S. praise with
our might
When Dobson had finished his fervent Thanksgiving
prayer,
Each one wiped his eyes, if a mote there.
The people then after their feast and benedicOn
And dispersed for their respective homes with the deepest
conviction
That the good things of Kansas entirely fiction
Phebus vanished at his appointed hour,
To shed his light on another lasd
Then twilight came to take command,
Epllo oroIb b-E Er.hu rboo E,II,.
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