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THANKSGIVING : THE
DINNER continued |
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| Edward Everett Hale, at age 70, remembered his childhood
Thanksgivings of the 1830s: |
"There would be a side-table for the children at which the oldest
cousin in a manner presided, with his very funny stories, with his very exciting lore
about the new life on which he was entering, either in the first class at the Latin school
or possibly after he had left the Latin School. Occasionally the revelry at the side-table
became so loud that it had to be suppressed by a word from the elders."
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"Thanksgiving Dinner,"
Harpers Magazine 1858 |
"Of those first Thanksgiving Days my memories are simply of
undisguised delight. I wonder now that I did not die the day after the first of them
from having eaten five times as much as I should have done. But there seems to be a
good Providence which watches over boys and girls, as over idiots and drunken people.
This is sure, that I have survived to tell the story."
From : A New England Boyhood by Edward E. Hale.
New York : Cassell Publishing Co., 1894
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Satisfaction |
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The Saturday Evening Post,
1938 |
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