Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-29

New England, November 81, 1925
This day Fare You Well Buckhorn,
Certain Salvation Drybones and your
servant beseeched the new parson to
pray for rain again, and see if he could
not fetch 1t this time. If he doesn't,
Wen get another parson. 1t has been
dry season and hard one. Nothing
to eat but wild turkey, bear steak, ven
ison. duck and vegetables such as are
found in the marsh or raised by hard
work. Wish I'd stayed in England, but
wife insisted on booking a stateroom
suite in the Mayiiower. Said all the
best people were to be on board ana
one might as we'll not come at all as
wait for a slow boat.
November 23.-Thursday. The par
son got his rain and holds his job. l
suspect that he saw the cloud hanging
over Cape Cod before he started, but he
kept on exhorting until the clouds
opened up. We are thankful the drouth
is broken, but still more so that the
parson didn't have to eXhort more than
three hours before getting action. A
donation party for him next week. Gov
ernor Bradford suggests we give thanks
this day for our blessings and do the
same every season. Maybe he's got
something to be thankful for. Being a
governor pays well.
Thanksgiving Day, 1624-Rose at 4
a. m, took my blunderbuss and went
hunting for Thanksgiving dinner. Fair
luck. Two turkeys, a deer and three
Indians. Former fairly fat. The wife
prepared a great feast OF turkey and
venison. with a dish Of red berries from
the swamp which are so sour as to set
the teeth on edge, but the last ship bore
suger in plenty from the Indies. 1t
also bore cargo OF the rum Of ia
maica, which we did test with great
pains. My head is like to split. 1t
must have been the berries, which are
called Gran" in the language OF the In
dams.
November, 1880. This day came a
strange pamphlet from Boston which
the printer does call a newspaper and
says will print 1t once each week, to in
form the colonists of what the world Is
doing. Methinks he Wfll have a great
task to find new wonders to record
every week in the year. 1t sets forth
that turkey is of greater price than in
the history of Thanksgiving day, a fat
pair bringing sixpence in silver. Ye
printer blames the high cost of living
on the aristocrats. Methinks he will
cool his heels in the stocks for this.
November, 1873. 1t is Thanksgiving
day, but much talk of discomfort with
English rule. The tariff on tea will be
oru ruin. making the rich richer and
the poor poorer. 1 am thankful this day
that l do not drink tea. There is no
tariff on rum.
November, 1731.-This be truly day
Of Thanksgiving. My Lord CORVALLIS
has surrendered and the British are
driven forth. My senator and my con-
gresham do promise I shall be keeper
Of the mint. which doth greatly appeal
to me, for surely there is money in 1t.
A merry quip, that, and one which shall
live through the ages.
November, 1863.-News has come
over the line about what General Sher-
man said war is. The general is dead
right. Only it's colder than the place
he mentioned. Ate Thanksgiving din
ner in camp. Mule steak, planked. COT
fee made Of sweet potatoes roasted
brown. Sassafras tea on the side. Last
course moonshine Ticker stilled In a
coffee pot from corn the mule would
have eaten, had he lived. We give