The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-11-26

Polly keeps tally. because be has g0e
me Dewcst i1ck-knife--oh. how slick -
whites the Old broom handle Cor
ham picked up in rackard's store
On brought along Jest % keep tally on
II u great game VI ball: the bats are
broad and light and the ball u small
and soft. But the Enfield boys beat NJ
NJ last lcastwise they make seventy
tailies 10 our fifty eight. When Heman
Fits knocks the ball over into Aunt
Dorcas Eastman's yard and Aunt Dor
cas- comes out an takes Il into the
house an we have 20 stop piayin'-
Then Phineas Owens allows he can Hop
any b0y Ia Belchcrtown. an Moses
Baker takes him up. an they w-assIc
like two Tartsrs. ill n last Moses
fuckers Phineas out an downs him rs
slick Is whistle.
Then We al 90 home. for Thanks
givin' dinner Is ready. Two long tn
b:cs have been made into one. and one
Of the OIL tablccloths gran ma hal
when she set up housekcepin' Is spread
over 'em both. We all set around
father. mother. Aunt Lydia Holbrook.
Uncle Jason, Mary. Helen. 1ryphcna
Foster. Amos and me. How big an
brown the turkey Il and how good Il
smells! There are bounteous dishes Of
mashed potato. tnrnip an squash. and
the celery il very white and cold, tho
biscuits are light an hot. and the
stewed cranbcrrics are red as Lauras
cheeks Amos and l get the drum
stickS; Mary wants the wish-bone 20
| put over the door for Hiram. but Helen
| gets il. Poor Mary. she always did
have to give up 70 'rushin' Helen. as
we call her. The pies-oh. what pies
mother makes: no dyspepsia in 'em.
| but good nature an good health an
hospitality, Pumpkin pies an
apulc. too-and then . big dish Of pip
pins an riIssrts an bellfiowers, an
| last of all. walnuts with cider from the
Zebrina Dickinson farm. tell We,
| there's a Thanksgivin' dinner for ye'
That's what we get in old Belchcrtow n.
an that's the kind Of Twin that makes
the Yankees 80 all-fired good an
smart,
(, but the best Of ALL" said Ezra.
very softly to himself. ''oh. yes, the
best scene in all the pictur' Is when
evenin' comes. when the neighbors
come in, and when there is music an
singin' an games An its this part 81
the pictur' that makes me homesick
now an ills my heart with a longln'
never had beforc-an' vet it sort o.
meilows an comforts me, TOO. Miss
Serena Bidwell. whose beau was killed
in the war. plays on the melodeon, and
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there. an he sings tenor song aoou
love The women sort q wn'spsl
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