The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-25
Quaint Account of a Dinner Given In
1T1t.

IVA.
Among the papers of the late ex-State
Senator Guy g. Stoddard of the town of
Ledyard was found an old newspaper
clipping containing quaint account of
an old colonial Thanksgiving church
service and dinner. 1t was written in
the year TIA by the Rev. Lawrence
Conant of the Old South parish. in Dan
| vers, Mass, and runs thus:
Ye Governor was in We house and
Her Majesty's commissioners of We Gus
toms, and they sat together in high
seat of ye pulpit stairs. Ye Governor
appears very devout and attentive, al
though he favors Episcopacy and toler-
ates ye Quakers and Baptists.
He was dressed in a black velvet
coat, bordered with gold lace and buff
breaches with gold buckles at ye knees,
and white silk stockings
There was a disturbance in We gal
leries, where it was filled with divers
negroes, mulattoes and Indians, and a
negro called Pomp Shorter, belonging
to ME-. Gardiner was called forth and
put in ye broad isle, where he was re-
proved with great carefulness and So
lemnity.
He was then put in ye deacons' seat
between two deacons. in view of We
whole congregation, but ye sexton was
ordered by Mr. Prescott to take him
out, because Of his levity and strange
contortion of countenance (giving grave
scandal to ye grave deacons), and put
him in ye lobby under ye Stare; some
children and a mulatto woman were
reprimanded for laughing at Pomp
| Shorter.
"When ye services at ye meeting
house were ended, ye council and other
dignitaries were entertained at ye house
OF Mr.. Epes, on ye hill near by, and we
had bountiful Thanksgiving dinner
with bears meat and venison, the last
OF which was fine buck, shot in ye
woods near by. Ye bear was killed in
Lynn woods near Reading.
"After ye blessing was craved by Mr..
Garrich of Wrentham, word came that
ye buck was shot on ye Lords day by
Pequot, an Indian, who came to Mr..
Epes with lye in his mouth like
| Ananias of old.
eye council therefore refused to eat
ye venison, but it was afterward decid-
ed that Pequot should receive 40 stripes
save one for lying and profaning ye
Lords day, restore Mr.. Epes ye cost Of
ye deer, and considering this just and
righteous sentence on ye sinful heather,
and that blessing had been craved on
ye meat, ye council all partook of it but
Mr.. Shepard, whose conscience was ten
der on ye point Of ye venison. New
York Tribune
The hero of the Thanksgiving of these
modern days of this modern end of the
century is not the chivalrous hero of by
gone times, with his hair in cue
and laces dangling from his wrists but
he stands a stocky figure of herculean
strength supported on a gridiron pedes-
tai and holding aloft a grimy football
in place Of the sword Of romance.
His face is massive with the force of
his purpose. His hair recalls the Jagged
shreds Of Japan s royal chrysanthemum.
His muscles are hardened with the pow
er of iron and the strength of his deter.
mination to do or die. His armor is an
assorted collection of pads and shields.
and, on the principle that it is impossi-
BILE to get too much of a good thing, his
appearance OH the field of honor is strik-
ingly impressive and forceful. The foot
ball player rules the land on Thanks
giving day. His voice is loud in the
land, and his supremacy is unrivaled.
Banners are waved at him, and cheers
are shouted. Canes proclaim his VIC
tory. and beauty extols his prowess. He
is lord Of the day.-Chicago Chronicle.