Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-11-25

To-day is Thanksgiving Day-,t IS
a National Thanksgiving Day. 1t is
supposed every man, woman and
child in this big Nation will to-day
give thanks-some more and some
less but every patriot, from Garfield
(the iucky) to Butler (the sooner
ooner flop than not) is supposed to
add his mite toward the grand Thanks
giving boom (excuse the uord).
Taking for granted that every one
gives thanks, we are sure different
persons give thanks for divers and
different things and in divers and
different ways.
The good man (of which we ready
gives thanks that death, which has no
sting, and the grave, which has no
victory over him, draws nigh.
One man gives thanks that he has a
wife; another that he has but the
one, and sill another because he has
none.
W. W. Fry gives thanks because
Thanksgiving Day has at last az
rived.
Garfield gives thanks for New
York Hancock gives thanks that he
is in the army, and Weaver gives
thanks because he is alive (small ia
vors thankfully ~received).
Col. Hutton gives thanks because
he at last has an office-(he is presi-
dent of the Mexico n. C. T.. W
NJ. Y. Duncan gives thanks be-
cause it might have heen worse. 1--WE
are but a little band Greenbackers,
but we are right, and l will take the
lead when we climb the golden stair"
Bob White gives thanks because
he has even the corpse of his Han
cock rooster on hand for dinner to-
day.
The average citizen gives thanks
that the farmer has not, as yet, run
the price of wool up to $500 per
load, and that coal can be bought by
the peck if you call early.
One man in Mexico gives thanks
because she is not like other men,"
another n gives thanks that he
don't see himself as others see him.
While we all give thanks in differ
ent ways and for different things, we
are all found about midday on this,
the 25th day OF November. 1880, pre-
pairing to do homage to the bird,
which is, at least, for one day, the
National bird.
After we have all given thanks
because it is all some of us have to
give in exchange for our dinner-we
will proceed to carve the fowl.
No matter whether it be a turkey,
Hancock rooster, Garfield hen, duck,
Or ''spring'' chicken, with steel gaffs,
just so it has wings, our rules for
carving will apply just the same.
You a buy your fowl, or get it in
the usual manner ;'you can raise it on
your own farm, or ''raise" it of
some of your neighbors' roosts, or, il
your political belief will allow you,
lust label an old shoe or a chunk o.
wood ''spring chicken aud go or
with the performance. Cook your
fowl; then stuff it with oysters--or.
if your limited mean won't allow
oysters, use oyster ANS. Spike the
animal to a plank with a good sizs
crow-bar and carve with a buck-saw
Ifyou have company, carve the fow
so the family gets the meat and ths
company the bones, especially if thu
minister or editor is your company
they a live on spiritual food. Some
men spit on their hands before taking
up the carving weapons. You nigh
as well spit on the fowl it would pa.
YOU better, for then you would ge
the whole bird. Nearly all fowl
have sixty bones; we have seen som
turkeys that had more bones thai
meat.
If you strike the right joint tn
work is done-the animal looks lik
/ a barn-door struck by lightning.
, The man who resorts to an axe t.
carve the dead bird should be ar
. rested for cruelty to animals, for b
i. is guilty Of brute force.
You should not get off your base
= but approach the bird kindly an
with no feelings of malice. The ter
der spot of a rhinoceros IS unde
the left fore leg; this not the cas-
u with q chicken. Anguish sometime
II fills the breast OF a human being
conceit fills the breast of the carver
but it is stuffing that fills the brea'
e of fowls, and if r%ighfully prepared
will not obstruct the free use OF II
knife any more than so much saw
If dust would. Having thrust tt
knife in below the breast-bone, sell
!, the left leg in your left hand give
v pull and q sort Of agitated var
ut the same moment, and the sta
;. board bulwarks of the fowl ought
= fall over right IN a body, leaving IL
carver to simply divide up the se
lions in convenient pieces. Th
ought to happen. lit does not, tt
Jaw and Ratchet can be used, or Il
fowl can be blown up with small o
u effective cartridges of giant powde
The family which prefers oysters
!. fowl for Thanksgiving dinner Is n