Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-27

two children are to set at this table over
in this corner. Come right along" Ant
when they were seated the old lady bus
tied up to Mrs. Patch and said:
"Now, Lucy. you and your husband
and the children are to sit here at this
table,"
"And if she didn't plump them right
down with the Writings that they hadn't
spoken to for years." said the voluble
Nancy Ross afterward. Indeed Nancy
was so fond of telling about that
Thanksgiving dinner afterward that
think will let her tell about it now.
''Then," she said, ''if that Hammer Dor
ton didn't set old Squire Bent down at
the head of one table with his daughter
Nellie at his right hand and his son-in-
law, John Waters, at his left, an their
baby in a high chair at its gran'pa's side,
an it want three minutes before the old
Squire had that baby in his arms and
he ct his whole dinner with the little
thing in his lap. / heard his daughter
say to him, 'Shan't l take the baby,
father, so that you can eat your dinner
in greater comfort?' But he held right
on to it, and there he sat talkin' to Nellie
and John same as if there'd never been
any trouble at all. And he had that baby
in his arms the whole afternoon, an
went around as proud. sayin' to folks,
See my grandson. Amt he mighty
fine boy?' 1t Twas the first time he had
ever seen the child, an the next week he
made Nellie and John come and live with
him. Then what did that Hammer Dor
ton do but put Reuben Hopes an his
brother Silas and their families at table
by themselves, an heard her say to
fn1tyS n t,o
sociable an have good visit together
same as own brothers ought to on
Thanksgivin' day Their wives have al.
ways wanted to make up, an l tell you
they found their tongues mighty soon,
an fore that meal was over they was
talkin' away as if there had never been
any row over property or anything else.
An before they knew it the Anderson
and Robey families found themselves at
the same table with Hammer sayin' to
'em. Now it don't make no difference
about the past This is Thanksgivin'
day, an a good time to forget that there
has ever been anything but happy past
between you folks
"Then if she didn't up an set old Ruth
Morse an old Betty Underwood down
side by side, an they hadn't spoke to
each other for years, an before they
knowed it them two old bodies was chat
tin away together as il they had never
had fallin' out in the world. Then
when she had got all the people that were
enemies set down side by side she seated
every one else, and then she said,
awe will now sing.
t"Blest be the tie that binds."'
An everybody sung it, an then Elder
Sharpe asked a blessin' an the dinner
was begun. There never was such a
spread seen before in these parts, an
you never would have thought to have
seen them people eatin' an laughin' an
merrymakin' together that there was
such thing in the world as malice or
envy or bitterness or ill-will or anything
O. the sort, no you wouldn't. After the
dinner we had games an sung songs an
made speeches, an from that time on
there was more peace an happiness an
sociability in the neighborhood than there
ever was before. I tell you we'd good
reason to stand up as we did before we
started for home an sing
".Praise God from whom all blessings
fow.'"