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THANKSGiyiNG.
Oh, gir thanks unto the Lord, for he Is pood;
For hi mercy endurrth forever.
Enter bis pttcs with thatiUvlvinff and Into hla
courts with praiso.
Be thankful unto him, and Mosskls holy name,
f will ulve thanks unto the Lord with my whole
heart.
In the council of the u;rt;'ut and In tho con
grc nation.
Thnit crowncst the year with thy goodness.
And thy paths drop fatness.
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
And will call ujxin the mime of the Lord.
I will pay niy vows unto the Iird:
Yea, In the prei ..ce of r!1 his people; In the
courts of the Lord's hoasp;
In the midst of thee, O JiriraVm.
Thou sbalt eat the labor of t!iy hsnds;
IIap:iy Elialt thou he, ni.d it thall be well with
thee.
Thy w nc shall he as a fruitful vine In tho in
nermost purts of thy hi ui-i
Thy olillilren like olive plnuts about thy table.
Thou sbalt see the Rood of Jerusalem all the
days of thy life;
Yea, thou shall see thy children's children.
The eves of nil wnlt upon thee;
And thon givent them their inent In due ser.son.
Thou openest thy hand;
And satisflost tho desire of every living tiling.
Pr!e the Lord, O Jerusnlem;
IVaise thy Uod, O Zltm.
Forhehalh strvni;thened the bnrsof thy pitts.
He huth blessed thy rltlMrrn within thee;
Ho maketh peace In thy lorders;
He illleth thee with the finest of tho wVui.
Go your wuy, eat tho flit and drink the sweet,
and tend jmrtlons unto him for whom
nothing Is prepared; for this day lswholy
unto tho Lord; neither be ye Rrioved, for
tho Joy of the Lord is yotir Mrcnitth.
Let tho people praise thee, O Lord; let all tho
people praise thee.
TWO THANKSGIVINGS
"We nntst be enrly v.t church today,
A tint Charlotte," saul Dorothy. "I havo
promised to play tho oran, and I would
not he late for anything.''
"What a beautiful Thanksgiving day
it is!" continued, wlnn she had left
tho table and put back tho curtain from
tho window. "How fino the ploij,aing
will be!"
A.s she Bpoke, a jlngliti"; of bull; was
heard without, and a sleigh glided rap
idly across tho white lawn.
"It is Bert Darrieote, anutio," sru.l
Dorothy, looking out at the handsome
young man. who sprang out of the sleigh
at the steps.
"1 have como to take you to church.
Dorothy," called out Eert to her as plm
threw up the sash, letting in tho crip
air, which blew her fair curls in sweet
confusion about her fair, pretty face.
"I know you would not for worlds
miss tho opportunity to exhibit your
i-'kill at manipulating the ivories today,"
the young man continued, as he canie
and stood nnder the window and looked
up into the bright face above him.
"I am so very glad you came, Eert,"
said Aunt Charlotte coming up behind
Dorothy. "This child has been hurry
ing me all morning, and a housekeeper
uuift needs look well to the wnys of her
household, particularly when her pastor
and his wife are to take dinner with
her."
"Just wait a moment, Eert," said Dor
othy, "and I shall be ready. Do r.i t
iieep auntie standing Lore talking to you,
Jiuugh. Shei all impatience to explore
the mysteries of cellar and closet to sto
If perchance she can discover some dtl--acy
to ticklo the palate of Erother
Mallory today."
She looked very beautiful to the young
man when she cume down to him.
"lan't the road fine, and isn't, the air
crisp, and doesn't Selim travel well to
day, Bert?" asked Dorothy loquaciously
when they were seated in "the sleigh and
were skimming over the smooth, hard
packed enow.
"What makes you so quiet, Bert?" she
ifked, astonished at the happy fellow's
an wonted silence.
"Perhaps it is because I have so much
to tell yon, and I hardly know where to
degin," answered Bert solemnly.
"Do you know, Dorothy, lam twenty
mo years old tomorrow?"
"Twenty-one? Yes, you aro, and I ntn
ighteen. And yet how rhort a time it
-leems since we were little children;
ince we used to go coasting down Dob-
m' hill. Do you remember the time,
5ert, when Tom Arnold asked tne to try
ue trip down on his sled and the thing
inio all to pieces and I went tumbling
iowu and sprained my ankle? Oh, how
arii jus you did get! Don't yon know?
ou pummeled Tom's big head till you
;.it your gloves r.ndyourknucklos, too.
lulieve, for they looked very red when
n were dragging me home."
"Do you remember all that?" said
it. "I thought you must have for
:tn it from the way you were smiling
Arnold the other night at choir prac-
"Why, Eert, how could he help tho
ed'r, coming to pieces?" asked Dorothy
uighingly. "I sec you are as vtnreason
. le as ever."
'V. ell, it's a man's business to ta!:o
.0 of a woman, even in little things,
.1 when a fellow's even indirectly the
iv of u girl's coming to grief in any
;y I think he deserves to bo dumcl-
.d," said Bert unreasonably. "But
i iiinot what I wanted to say, Doro
y. As I told you, I am t.enty-ono
v, and father has given me the junior
.irtiiership in tho bank, and and you
'now howl love you howl have al-
ays loved you, dear, and I want you to
.' my wife."
Tho young fellow wound up abruptly,
uulL'y, looking lovingly into the sweet
i.tuu beside him.
The sleigh sped smoothly on, the
hursos feet resounding upon the bridge
.hey were just crossing.
"Won't you speak to me, Dorothy?"
JJort said, almost pleadingly. "You
riust know that I love you, and now I
am able to take care of you, dear, if you
will only trust yourself to me, no barm
ntwir
Dump! The runners of the sleigh
k ruck a board at the end of the bridge,
thero was a cracking, a creaking, the
horso bounded forward and Bert and
1 Dorothy tumbled over into the drift
beyond the bridge.
"Are you hurt?" said Bert, scrambling
to his feet, and extricating himself and
Dorothy from the mass of rngs and soft
snow.
"Not in tho least," she replied, "but
how are we to get to church? Who will
play the organ?"
"Can I help you out of your difficul
ties?" called a cherry voice behind them,
and big Tom Arnold came np in his
handsome sleigh.
"Oh, Tom," said Dorothy, "I am so
glad to see you! I must be in church in
time to play the organ today, and see
what has befallen us!"
"Well, get in, both of you," said Tom,
arranging his rugs and holding out his
; hand to Dorothy. "Just fasten tip
Selnn s traces, Bert, nnd hitch him be
hind, lie will lead, won't he?"
"Thanks!" said Bert stiffly. "I cau
take care of mysulf; you had brt not
waste any more time, since Miss Daly
must hurry."
Dorothy looked at him mutely from
her seat in the sleigh; Arnold smiled
beneath his fierce mustache, cracked
his whip, and the horses sped forward,
leaving Bert standing flushed and angry
in tho middle of the road.
It was a very silent, gloomy ride, after
all, that Dorothy had. Tom saw her
distress, and liko the good fellow that
he was said nothing to her. Her hands
were trembling nnd her eyos were full
of tears when ho helped her out at
church.
.Sho struck tho first few chords doubt
fully, but when the voices pealed forth
clear and sweet the organ tones grew
firmer and fuller.
During the sermon Dorothy did not
take her eyes oil the door, but Bert nevet
came. It was a very demure, a very
sad hearted littlo maiden who went back
home with Aunt Charlotte in the big old
sleigh. When they reached the bridge,
and she saw tho overturned sleigh by the
roadside; when sho thought of Bert
standing nugry und alone, his sweet,
earnest appeal to her still unanswered,
her heart grew very heavy.
"But burely he will come," she kept
saying to herself; but when the day was
gone and she knelt down by her bf dside,
with tho Thanksgiving hymns still ring
ing in her ear., there were tears in her
eyes and sadness in her heart.
That was one Thanksgiving, nnd, oh,
how sad a one!
There w.-re dreary days of hoping, of
waiting, of di.-appoiiitment to Dorothy
before another came. Sho had known
Bert Darricote all her life, and it seemed
to her she had always loved hiin. His
bright, quick boyishness, his innate man
liness, his very faults even were dear to
her.
"If I could only see him," she said, n
the weeks passed by and ho came not;
"no matter where I should meet him
would go up to him and give him his
answer. I would tell him I loved him."
Women are not very reasonable crea
tures in matters pertaining to love. To
her love means sacrifice, nud her pleas
ure is to take the faults tf the loved one
upon herself.
If Dorothy saw Eert at all it was only
occasionally and at a distance The
first time fho t r.w him was at church,
and he hud only lifted li head coldly.
His heart was very heavy during the
days ami weeks and months cfter hu j
parted from Dorothy with the words o J
love upon his lips, but he was young j
and foolish and proud, and had let a j
silly jealousy ulind las eyes.
Tho season of heartache was good for
both of the young ihing-t. It softened,
it stre.ngthed them. They both felt .
tbeuifelves growing felt their fi.eli:ig3
intensifying. ;
"How like to last Thanksgiving today j
is, Dorothy!" mid Aunt Charlotte, as i
tney toolc their seats in the sleigh.
"Please God it will not be so sad a
one," Eaid Dorothy to herself.
"Are you afraid to trust yourself in
this old sleigh with me?" she continued
to her aunt.
"Oh, no," said Aunt Charlotte. "It
seems safe enough."
The tramping of the horses' feet kept
time to Dorothy's thoughts. She glanced
at the tall stump upon the hillock just
before they reached the little river. Yes,
it looked lonely, desolate, like a white
robed ghost just as it had looked a year
ago when she und Bert hud fped by.
Tho horaes' hoofs bnut a mournful
strum strum upon the bridge, the sleigh
glided rapidly down the last steep de
cline, tho left runuer struck a projecting
snag, and before they had time to think
Dorothy and Aunt Charlotte were strug
gling to extricate themselves from the
overturned vehicle in the soft snow. A
jingling of bells was heard behind them,
and before Dorothy could realize it Bert
Darricote was bending over her.
"Are you hurt, dear?" he asked very
gently.
"Oh, Bert," she said joyfully, taking
his hand und rising to her feet
The young iiiau looked a moment in
silence upon the 6weet, young faco up
turned to his.
"See where we are, Dorothy! Just
here, a year ago today, I usktd you to
be my wife," ho said. "Will you give
me an answer now?"
"Yes, Bert," was all whe answered, but
it was enough for him. Putience Oriel.
Iiumeuiber iha Day.
Tho ti iu t at lu.it. The eraca is said.
And up b ibs every eager head.
And bright eyes, like some greedy power,
Oo seckius whul they may devour.
The turkey nt tho feht Is lost;
The thiekeus get their drumsticks crossed.
And empty plutes. Juet illlotl with pied,
The good wife marks with smiling eyet.
'erhui this duy in years to come
Aluyllud Itiinu wanderers far from hurae,
And with Juy hunting memories cheer
The shadows of that changeful year.
." OrleanuTimus-Deuiucrtit.
The Duy of Memories and Hopes.
At the recurrence of the home anni
versary we pause, take up the scattered
threads and weave them into a golden
tissue of memory. Today we may think
over the past today indulge, if we
wish, in roseate anticipations for the fu
ture. The home anniversary lays upon
us its gently arresting baud, and our
hearts aro full.
GAMES FOR THANKSGIVING.
Amusement for the Young Folks Should
Close the Festal Day.
The short November day nil too soon
ha departed nnd night has "spread her
dark mantle o'er the scene." The older
folks are quiet nnd thoughtful, conven
ing in low tones or Indulging in tender
memories of pat Thanksgivings called
np by tho day's festivities. But as the
lamps are lighted the young people nro
full of mirth nnd gaycty and eager for
an evening's amusement. You nil have
tried pinning on tho donkey's tail. A
game very like it and appropriate for
tho day is called the "Headless Turkey."
A figure of a largo turkey, minus a
head, is drawn in charcoal or cut from
dark colored cambric and fastened on a
sheet, which is tightly r.tretrhrd ngainst
a wall. To each member of the com
pany is given a pin and n turkey's head
cut out of cambric, which, if rightly
placed, will fit tho turkey's neck. Then,
ono at n time, the players are blind
folded and placed at the end of the room
opposite the slp-et. After turning them
around thrco times one way nnd then
throo times tho other they are started
oil that they may search for tho turkey
and pin the head where they suppose it
Ijelongs. Ho must pin it to the spot
where he first touches. To the person
who come nearest placing tho head in
its proper position a pri.-j is given, nnd
to the one who rjakes the least success
ful effort Is presented a turkey feather,
which he must wear the rest of the even
ing. Impromptu tableaux nro also evig
gested i.s plearant Thanksgiving diver
sions, and to these you may call in the
older members of the family if you like,
though I know families where tho par
ents and grown up sisters engage in the
children's plays very often and add great
ly to their pleasure. When two rooms
nro connected by folding doors a whole
room may be used mi u stage, nnd no
curtains nro needed, ns tho doors an
swor very well in their place. When
there are no double doors ono end of a
room may bo curtained cil with sheets
or any kind of drapery hung from aropo
stretched from the rides of oppouio
doors or windows:. Pumpkin lnnterns
set in a Vow along the floor inako a
funny rubstitntc fur footlights, nnd will
decorate the ttageappropriately, besides
Iwiug perfectly k.Io. 1 wonder if you
know how to make a pumpkin lantern.
Cut a hole in ono side largo enough to
pass a caudle on a small candlestick
throngh. Remove tho seed, etc., from
the inside; scrape t no other side very
thin, so tho light will shine through;
light your candle, put it in, nnd you
have a pumpkin lantern. Tho open side
must of course be next tho tiaga, else
tho light will shine out from instead of
onto the stage. New Orleans Times
Democrat. Glvo Thanks.
What a world it is in which, when the
great festival of Thanksgiving comes on
its yearly round, there is always some
thing to bo found to bo thankful for,
even, it would teem, in tho case cf the
most wretched!
Aro we poor? We might be beggars.
Are we beggars? Ye might be lepers.
Aro we lepers? Our sickness might bo
unto death. Ij it unto death? We have
yet a heaven beyond. For all let us give
thanks. Thanks surely if we cro in
health of body ar.d mind; and even in
illness there is much reason and occasion
To bo found for a grnt. 'ul heart. IIa3
trouble como tj us now? Ic might bo
worse. Are we alcne? Thtiro i poorer
company thanoun elvestobohad. Il.ve
wo lost our di-nivst a:ul brs;? They, at
uny rate, v.vo v.o-. ln.ro to sufiVr. Has tho
year dealt ciu.-hiag blov.-j in business?
It has not taken n'.vay ulfo our power
and will to work. Have wo work? Then
for that nnd all the rest give thanks
again. Give thanks that wo live and
breathe and have our being in this world
of wonder and light and beauty. For,
poor and sick ar.d siid though wo may
be, though
Other hands ruay grasp the field and forest,
Proud proprietors la pomp mny shine.
But with fervent love if thou ailoriwt,
Thoo. art wcalthier-aU the world isthlnol
Harper's Bazar.
The Mercies of the Lord.
Tlw recurring season never fails to
find tho same repeated mercies. We
thank God this year for the same bless
ings as claimed our praise on last
Thanksgiving day. Again and again it
is recounted in that book of the Bible
which is all psalms of praise how un
failing and repeated i the goodness of
God. "The mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting. " "Thy mercy,
O Lord, endureth forever."
Let this, then, be a day of gladness
for all Our people, whatever their condi
tion, race or religiou. Let rich and poor
together praiso Ood today. Let Protest
ants and Catholics lift up the voice of
simultaneous thanksgiving. Lot this be
a national holiday of praise to God, and
a day when each shrill add to the other's
joy by gifts and aid and fellowship of
pruiise. New York Independent.
Thanksgiving Joys.
Thanksgiving day Is almost gone,
And w u e rvigus overhead;
And mother's Juy her wu sweet hoy
Is trundled oil to bed
Yet v. hut are those unearthly sounds
That pierce the midnight air?
And what's that throbbing nolso we bear
Como rumbling down the stair?
It Is our litrla household pet, '
Who tosbos upon high,
And wages an unequal light
With turUey uuU miuce plo. Life.
IMckslngs on tho Day.
Oh, blessings on the holiday!
The subject of my rhyme;
Oft in life's stormy sea it stands
A beacon for all time.
And many a homestead in our laud
Uprhil ns fair and guy,
Dates all its hopes and all Its joys
From dear Thanksgiving day!
K. W. ilume lu Now York Telegram.
Thanksgivtnn with Uncle Mose.
"Eldah, you'll have ter skuso de tu'key.
Hit's a leotlo oviJidone. My wife dressed
it an hung it in de smokehouse las' night,
an dis tuawuin, 'bout fo' o'clock, bit
burned 4cwn." Harper's Dzsr.
IIIST01UC FEASTS.
EARXY THANKSGIVINGS AND THE
EVENTS WHICH LED TO THEM
The rilfrrluia First to Celebrate the
Festival In America with Maasasolt u
Their fuest A Curious IonR Island
Custom.
Wo wonder how many loys and girls
know the facts which we shall tell them
about this holiday. How many, for in
stance, can tell in what year the day was
first observed? To recall tho circum
stances of the first day of Thanksgiving
may servo to remind ns of how much
more we havo to bo thankful for than
had those early pilgrims. History Vill
us that of tho 103 emigrants that landed
on the bleak and rocky coast of Cape
Coil bay in tho winter of 1820 almost
haJf died boforo tho following wintei
fairly set in. Today in our comfortable
country and city homes we ennnot oven
imagine the sufferings of the rurvivors,
Ixith from destitution and tho inclement
weather, which they were not prepared
either as to clothes or habitations to
brave. Tho most of tho bravo pnople
were not inured to hardships. Among
them wero gentlo nnd delicately nur
tured men and women.
They staked and laid out two rows ol
huts for thetineteen families thnt com
prised tho colony, but within tho first
year they had to make seven times more
graves f.r tho dead than houses for the
living. Notwithstanding all their trials
and hardships these bravo founders of a
great and glorious race hnd so much for
which to bo thankful that they had to
appoint "an especial day on which to give
especial thanks for nil their mercies."
So they agreed among themselves
that, since their prudence nnd fore
thought hud been so wonderfully blessed
of God, they would send out four men
hunting that they might rejoice together
in n special manner after the fruit of
their laljors h:nl been gathered. Ac
cording to the historian, barley nnd In
dian corn wero their only crojw; the
"peas wero not wortli gathering, for, as
we feared, they were too lute sown."
This was under the good Governor Brad
ford. Tho four men who went hunting
brought in as much game ns served the
company for a wrrk. Tho recreations
of the day consisted cf the exorcises of
their nrms Massasoit, the Indian chief,
and ninety of his men coming among
them for three days, during which time
they wero eutcrtidued and feasted by
tho colouhits, tho Indians killing and
bringing to tho feast five deer. This
wtw i.i 1031 and was the beginning of
Thanksgiving day in America.
The next New England Thankrgiving
day was in July, 1023, which had been
appointed a day of fasting nnd prayer on
account of drought. While the people
wero praying rain fell abundantly av.d
tho governor appointed it insttad a d.iy
of thanksgiving. Ia June, 1CS2, Gov
ernor Wiuthrop, of the 2I.if.sachusctt3
Bay colony, invited tho governor of
Plymouth colony to unite with him in a
day of public thanksgiving because tho
action of tho British privy council had
been favorable to the colonies. Ia Mas
sachusetts Bay colony old records ishow
that days of thanksgiving were ap
pointed in' lCUS, 1G3-1, 1637, 1L"53 and 100
and sometime on suoro than one day ia
the same year. In Plymouth we Cud
mention of one in ICol and again in 100'.
In lOw) it seems to havo become an an
nual custom.
During tho revolution it was annually
recommended by congress then there
v.-as a thanksgiving for peace in ITS-;,
and iu lTo'J President Washington lee
tmmended a day of thanksgiving for
tho adoption of tho constitution. In
1793 there was ono for tho suppression
of insurrection, and in April, lbl5. tho
president appointed a day of thanks
giving for peace. In Now England,
during all this time, however, annual
proclamations wero issued by the gov
ernora cf the various Etatos officially
recommending tho roligious observance
of the day, where indeed it becaino tho
principal social and home festival of the
year.
During tho war of the rebellion Pres
ident Lincoln uppointed special thanks
giving in 1S03 and 1863, and a national
proclamation of annual thauksgiving
was issued in 18C3 and 18C4. Since that
time the president, as well as governors
and mayors, have issued such a procla
mation annually.
One of the most remarkable thanks
givings on record was the custom iu
Southampton and Easthampton, Long
Inland. Muntauk Point, consisting of
about 0,000 acres, was owned by numer
ous proprietors in those two towns. They
nsed it as a common pasturage for their
stock. The time for driving the flocks
home for the winter was fixed at a
meeting by the town council, "and it
came," says the historian, "to be a rul
from the period beyond which tho
memory of man rnnneth not that the
Thursday of the week following tho re
turn of the cattle from Montank should
be observed as a day of thanksgiving."
But thanksgiving is older even than
the United States. In many countries
there havo been from time to timo
thankful hearts. In Holland tho firut
anniversary of the deliverance of tho
city of Leyden from the tiego, Oct. !),
1573, was kept us a religious festival of
thanksgiving and praise. In the English
church sen-ice the Bth of November is
so celebrated in commemoration of the
gunpowder plot.
Wo think wo have told you as much
ns you can remember about what other
people had to be thankful for and when,
nnd if you will master soruo of theo
dates you will probably be better in
formed about tho day, which to you
means perhaps only a great feast, than
will somo of the older folks, who, we
are sure, will be very proud and pleased
to hear what you have learned. Ameii
can Agriculturist.
The Sole Objector.
She (gratefully) Well, everybody b&s
something to be thankful for.
He (casuallyr Except tho turkey.
New York Mail and Express.
A THANKSGIVING HUNT.
now the Mighty N Imrods I nred Dinner
In the Forest.
In a broad nnd general way hunting
parties may be divided into two great
domes those that people hear alxmt and
those they do not.
The writer has in mind a hunting
party of the second class that which
appears not on tho written page, nor is
found in the mouths of men. It went
for big game, and got but littlo of it. It
went out with plenty of wagon room in
which to bring back venison, deer nnd
antelope to ticklo the stay nt homes'
palates, and returned, tho wagon Fpaco
still unoccupied and carrying r.o load
but that of solid, soggy, destroyed
hopes. Yet the party was Mioecssf ul
in a way.
There were days a week of days
that the imrty wulked or rode over tho
hill nnd plain without gelling a shot at
anything. The members became dis
trustful of each other and cast glances
that plainly nsked, "Who is tho Jonah
of this trip?'' For they were hunters by
instinct nnd training not of littlo feath
ered birds, bnt of gamo that it tikes
brains as well as powder and lead to
reach. They knew the haunts of tho
game that they wanted deer r.nd ante
lope but they wero perpetually to wind
ward, and gaiuo lied tho country In-fore
them. After a week of di.-apoir.tment,
of muscles m hing with unrewarded toil,
of a steady bread and bacon diet oppos
ing a rising nppetite, desperation took
tho tipper hand.
"I'm getting pretty sick of bacon,"
said one,
"It looks liko thnt is all we'll get,"
said another.
It was at this juncture that tho party
happened on asmull bunch of wild cattle.
It was the first meat on the hoof with
which their eyes had Jieen blessed. It
was an exciting moment, and tho leader
of tho party rapturously brought his rifle
to his shoulder nnd shot down a yearling
heifer.
"A deer nt last! Look at the antlers!"
ho yelled, caperiug gleefully about.
"You aro mistaken; it's a cow," eaid a
more conservative member.
The leader looked doubtfully at his
prize and shook his head. "I admit that
appearances aro ngainst me," paid he.
"Bnt so excited hadn't shot a gun for
so long sick of bacon no, no; you're
mistaken. It ia deer moat."
So this lawless, reckless party took a
hind quarter and journeyed on. The
next day a deer was actually seen and
killed. Hope revived, and the party es
timated tho probable result of tho "trip,
with a large balance on the credit t;ide.
The third day from tho opening cf the
Benson the route led through a beautiful
oak country. Underbrush there was in
plenty, and the enthusiast iu leader of the
party looked wisely about as he observed
to another, "Should think we ought to
run across somo mast hogs in lu re."
Strangely enough, at that moment a
sedate old black and white sow hovo in
sight, with her progeny trailing at her
heeh;. With a porker's usual disregard of
consequences she was moving Ktraigh:
ngainst the faco of provide nco. i'lio
leader's gun was ready, a:id in p. mo
ment tho choicest of tho litu-r was a
victim of maremal imprudence. Tho
mother galloped away with i;o iipparent
regret, and tho brothers and si.;tcrs tf
the deceased went galloping afit r.
That night Thanksgiving eve tho
party camped in a slithered canyon.
There was a spring of clear water in
which water cresses grew. Thero was
grass in plenty for tho mules. There
was wood for a roaring enmpure. Who
go happy, so well contented, as the hunt
ers as they sat ubout the blaze, pulling
contentedly at their pipes and thinking
of tho grand and varied fetistthey would
have on the morrow? Thero wero bacon,
pork, beef and veuison; there were
onions, potatoes aud cauued tomatoes,
flour, salt, pepper, bakiug powder. Tho
xt day these should bo combined in
the most appetizing form. A etew with
dumplings! Th choicestof meats, roast
or boiled!
Ia their mind's eye they beheld them
selves fattening upon the good things
that their rifles had procured or their
forethought had provided.
Twenty-four hours later this was an
accomplished fact Thero was nothing
left to oat But tho fire burned gayly
and tho pipes wnokod as pipes should.
Complacency and lethargy possessed the
party.
"I don't feel as though I'd ever movo
again," said tho recumbent leader.
"Mebbe it's just as well if you don't,"
said a straugo voice, and the strunge
owner of it stepped out into the fire
light Ho had a mean looking gun in
his hands, and the niuKxlo pointed group
ward. "I just brought a few friends along to
help you keep Thanksgiving," he con
tinued, and under the spell of his words
or gun the party remained statu
esquely motionless.
"I kinder thought you would like to
pay for that shole of mine you killed
yesterday?" he Inquired.
"And at tho same time I'll collect for
that heifer," wild another stranger, ad
vancing from tho opposite direction.
The party fancied itself surrounded.
Thcu tho conservative member sjjoko.
"Yes, certainly, geutlemeu; name your
price. We ehall bo glad to pay it."
"That Baves us all a heap of troublo,"
remarked the Wtors with peculiar em
phasis as they took what money they
wanted and rode away with it. They
left behind nothing but a (spirit of
unrest a longing to quit the country
strangely at variance with the peaceful
content of a few mimitos before. It
was voiced by the loader, that ecoeutrio
genius who had slain both heifer and
shote.
''Boys," Bald be, "let's go home.
Lets start tomorrow. This hunters'
life is too excitingj there's heart diseaeo
to my family. Let's go homo and calm
down."
So the nest day the party Btartod
homewaid.-flow.Vpr
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BLOOMSUUKG, PA.
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