The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-11-23

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 il she didn't plump them right
down with the Writings that they hadn't
spoken to for years" said the voluble
Nancy Ross aftcrward. Indeed Nancy
was so fond of telling about that
Thanksgiving dinner afterward that
think will let her tell about 1t now.
Then" she said, III 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 1t 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 | 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 IL 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 boyT II 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 Hoopes an his
brother Sias and their families at a table
by themselves, an heard her say to
'em. 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 al.
ways wanted to make up. an tell you |
they found their tongues mighty soon,
an fore that meal was over they was
talkn' away as IL there had never been
any row over property or anything else.
An before they knew ii the Anderson
and Robey families found themselves at
the same table with Hammer sayin' TO
EN-, Now 1t 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 il 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,
ave will now sing
"Blest be the tic that binds."'
An everybody sung it. an then Elder
Sharpe asked blessin' an the dinner
was begun. There never was such a
spread seen before in these parts, an
Gou never would have thought to have t
seen them people eatin' an laughin' an a
together that there was [
'uch a thing in the world as malice. or
'nvy or bitterness or ill-will or anything y
the sort. no you wouldn't After the
Inner we had games an sung songs an i.
made speeches, an from that time on .
mere was more peace an happiness an =
oclability in the neighborhood than there n
yer was before, tell you we'd good 81
eason to stand up as we did before we s.
tarted for home an sing a
l'raise God from whom all blessings t.
fow.'" ~