The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-11-29

variety of jellies and jams and pre-.
serves and pickles brought forth from
boxes and baskets.
there's enough stuff here to feed
an army" said Hannah Dorton, as she
hustled about from table to table, the
happiest and most active person in the
house.
A few minutes before one o'clock I
heard her say to Mrs. Kate Whiting:
Come, now, Kate; you and your hus-
band and two children are to set at
this table over in this Come
right along" And when they were
seated the old lady hustled 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 l
think I will let her tell about it now.
"Then," she said, "if that Hammer
Dorton didn't set old Squire Bent down
at the head of n table with his daugh-
ter 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 min
utes before the cd squire had that
baby in his arms and he ct his whole
dinner with the little thing in his lap.
1 heard his daughter say to him 'shan't
TAX the baby, father, so that you
can eat your dinner in greater com
fort? 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 a mighty
fine boy? It was 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
Dorton do but put Reuben Hopes an
his brother Silas and their families at
a table by themselves, an I heard her
say to EN-: Come, now, you folks want
to be sociable an have a good visit
together same as own brothers ought
to on Thanksgivin' day. Their wives
have always 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 Andersons and Robey families
found themselves at the same t abe
with Hammer sayin' to 'em: Now it
don't make no difference about the
past. This is Thanksgiving day, an a
good time to forget that there has ever
been anything but a happy past be-
tween you folks
"We viii, now sing:
'Blest be the tie that binds
An ev'rybody 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 a thing in the world as malice OF
envy or bitterness or ill-will or any.
thing O. that 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 sociabi.ity in the neigh.
borhood than there ever was before. ]
tel you, we'd good reason to stand ur
as we did before we started for home
an sing Praise God from whom al
blessings low.'"-J. L. Harbour, in De
troit Free Press.