The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-11-23


I o'clock. and by noon the house was fill
ed 10y merry, happy crowd, including al
most every family in the district.
There were baskets and boxes and
even tubfuls of turkeys and chickens and
doughnuts and pies and cakes. There
were baskets of big red apples, and Hi
ram Hawkins brought half a barrel of
sweet cider. Some one brought a bas-
ket of popcorn balls for the children, and
there was an infinite variety of jellies
and jams and preserves and pickles
brought forth from boxes and baskets.
There's enough stuff here to feed an
army" said Hannah Dorton, as she bus
tied about from table TO table, the happi-
est and most active person in the house.
A few minutes before | o'clock heard
her saying to Mrs. Kate Whiting, Come,
now, Kate: you and your husband and
two children are to set at this table over
in this corner. Come right along" And
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 i
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 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, 'Shant l take the baby,
father, so that you can eat your dinner
in greater comfortY 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 boyT 1t 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 Dor
ton do but put Reuben Hopes an his
brother Sias and their families at a table
|
EN- Come, now, you folks want to be
sociabe an have a good visit together
same as own brothers ought to ON
Thanksgivn' day Their wives have al
ways wanted TO make up, an | tell you
they found their tongues. mighty soon,
an fore that. meal was over they was
talkin- away as if there had never been
amp row over property or anything else
An before they knew it the Anderson
i and Robey families found themselves al
the same table with Hammer sayin' to
'em. Now it don't make no difference
about the past. This is Thanksgivin
z. day, an good time to forget that there
Z 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 dowr
side by side, an they hadn't spoke I,
each other for years, an before they
;, knowed it them two old bodies was chat
tin away together as if they had never
: had a fallin out in the world. Ther
!, when she had got all the people that wer,
= enemies set down side by side she seate,
:, every one else, and then she said.
- ".We will now sing
n '"Blest be the tie that binds."s