The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-11-23

There were baskets of big red apples,
| and Hiram Hawkins brought half q
barrel of sweet cider Some one
brought basket of popcorn balls for
the children, and there was an infinite
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 Dorron, as she
hustled about from table to table, the
happiest and most active person IN the
house.
A few minutes before one o'clock
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 corner. 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 1
think will let her tell about it now.
"Then." she said, ST that Hammer
Dorton didn't set old Squire Bent down
at the head of one table with his daugh-
ter Nellie at his right hand and his
son-in-law. John Walters, at his left.
an their baby in a high chair at its
gran'pa's side. an it want three min
utes 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
take the baby, father, so that you
can eat your dinner in greater COM
fort? But he held right on to it. and
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 aid that Hammer
Dorton do but put Reuben Hopes an
his brother Sifas and their families at
table by themselves. an heard her
say to EN-: Come, now, you folks want
to be sociable an have good visit
together same as own brothers ought
to on Thanksgivin' day Their wives
nave always 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 any row over property
Or anything else. An before they knew
1t the Andersons 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 Thanksgiving day, an a
good time to forget that there has ever
been anything but happy past be-
tween 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 1T them two old bodies were
chatting away together as if they had
never had falling 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, an then
she said:
'"We will now sing:
'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 haye
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 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 II
tel you, we'd good reason to stand up |
as we did before we started for home |
an sing Praise God from whom all
blessings flow u. L. Harbour, in De. |
troit Free Press.
BIG ODDS.