Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-11-22

TWO children are TO set at this tabie ove
in TINS corner. Come right alonr.n An,
7 when they were seated the old lady bns
tied up to Mrs. Patch and said.
VOW Lucy, you and your husband
| table" - .'i'
And II she didn't plump them righ,
down with the Writings that they hadn't
spoken to for years." snid the voluble
Nancy Ross afterward. Indeed Nancy
was so fond OF telling about thai
thanksgiving dinner afterward that
tnink ! will let her tell about It now.
Then" she said, ''if that Hammer DIR.
ton didn't set old Squire Bent down A
the head OF one mble with his daugh,ar
Nellie at his right hand and his son.ln.
Aw, !onn Waters, at his left. an their
oaoy IN high chair at its gran'pa's side.
sn u wa nt three minutes before the old
squire had that baby Ia bis arms and
ne ct his whole dinner with the little
tning In his lap. | heard his daughter
say to him, Shan't take the babv
iatner, SO that you can eat your dinner
IN greater comfort? But he held right
on to L, and there he sat talkin' 10 NeIlie
ana John same as il there'd never been
any trouble at all. And he had that babv
IN his arms the whole afternoon. an,
went around as proud, sayin' to folks
See my grandson. Amt he n miyhty 4
hne ooy 1t was the first time he had \
ever seen the child. an the next week be
made Nellie and John come and live With
i'm. Then what did that Hammer Dor.
on do but put Reuben Hoones an his
'rother Silas and their families NJ : taha
y themselves. an' ! heard her say to
I'm. Come, now, you folks want 10 10
ociabie an have a good visit together
anne as own brothers ought to on
nanksgiyin day. Their wives have al.
rays wanted to make up. an tell ron
ney found their tongues mighty soon.
n fore that meal was over they was
AKIN away as If there had never been
ny row over property or anything else
n before they knew II the Apderson I
I'd hobey families found themselves AZ I
Ie same table with Hammer sayIn, "a
m. Now 1t don't make no difference 9
'out the past This Is Thanksgivir, r
~. an' n good time TO forget that thera
IS ever been anything but a happy past =
tween you folks Z
Then II she didn't up an set old R,,h
'rse an old Betty Underwood down a
le by side, an they hadn't spoke 10 y
ch other for years. an before they II
owed II them two old bodies was chat. 50
away together as IL they had neve, W
fallin' out in the world. Then ci
en she had got all the people that were
'mies set down side By side she sea,aS n.
'ry one else. and then she said. No
We will now sing =
"Blest be the tie that binds."' q,
everybody sung 1t. an then Elder an
irpe asked blessin' an the dinner na
begun. There never was such a q.
Fad seen before In these parts. AM sss'
never would have thought TO have ~
them people eatin' an laughin' am ca
rymakin' together that there was on
. thing In the world as malice or sto
or bitterness or ill-wiIl or anything
ne Sort no You wouldn't. After the ger
Ter we had games an sung songs AM the
ie speeches, an from that time ON ne,
e was more peace an happiness an cen
aDiiity in the neighborhood than there
was before. / tell you we'd good /
on to stand up as we did before We ma
ted for home an sing ha /,
vvu from whom all blessings find
Ao"' -