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Updated: June 9, 2025
And as we went in we see a group of happy faced young people gathered round the organ practicin' a piece they wuz learnin' for Thanksgivin'. It wuz a sweet song of thankfulness and peace, filled with gratitude for all the blessin's of the year.
Scratching his head meditatively, he said: "An' all because av me wantin' to enjoy the blessin's an' advantages av civilization agin afther three long months in that danged gradin' camp, as is the right av ivery healthy man wid his pay in his pocket." The teamster laughed softly. "You was sure enjoyin' of it a-plenty." The other looked at him with quickened interest. "Ye was there?" he asked.
'He'll help us f'r to make th' Ph'lippeens indepindint on us f'r support, I says; 'an', whin th' blessin's iv civilization has been extinded to his beloved counthry, an', I says, 'they put up intarnal rivinue offices an' post-offices, I says, 'we'll give him a good job as a letter-carrier, I says, 'where he won't have annything to do, I says, 'but walk, I says.
"It's rasonable he is intirely," she said, "and a bright son o' the ould counthree, blessin's on it! It's him who spakes well o' the poor ruined crathers, and praises us all for the natural generous-sowled people we are. He knows us intirely, Norah dear. Shure he's a wonderful man and a bould, let alone the thrue son o' ould Ireland, for doing the beautiful thing.
There's half our plantin' to be done yet, and some of the ground hasn't got the last ploughin'. Harvest won't come without seed-time; for no man, let him be great, or let him be small and it does seem to me a sort o' wastin' of the Lord's blessin's, to be hangin' gates, and diggin' holes for that the thing the captain mentioned when there's no visible danger in sight to recommend the measure to prudence, as it might be."
One day O'Riley sat on the taffrail, basking in the warm sun, and drinking in health and gladness from its beams. He had been ill, and was now convalescent. Buzzby stood beside him. "I've bin thinkin'," said Buzzby, "that we don't half know the blessin's that are given to us in this here world till we've had 'em taken away.
Blessin's on the ould name! though little pelf goes with it, it sounds on the peur man's ear like a bit of gould!" "Do you not see now," said Roland, as we turned away, "what we owe to a name, and what to our forefathers? Do you not see why the remotest ancestor has a right to our respect and consideration, for he was a parent?
Wiggs lifted her hands for silence. "O Lord!" she prayed earnestly, "help these here childern to be good an' kind to each other, an' to their mas an' their pas. Make 'em thankful fer whatever they 'are got, even if it ain't but a little. Show us all how to live like you want us to live, an' praise God from whom all blessin's flow. Amen." As the last youngster scampered out of the yard, Mrs.
"But I got a little comfort finally, for when the Deacon died, by some inadvartance the choir sang, 'Praise God from whom all blessin's flow, an' I wa'n't the only one who felt that way, either." In spite of Uncle Terry's mildly flavored shafts of sarcasm, he made no enemies and his kind heart and sterling honesty were respected far and near.
"Tolerable, thank you. Sammy, my husband, he ain't been earnin' as much as usual lately, but I says to him, when he's downhearted-like because he can't hand out the price o' the rent, 'Say, you ain't fished up much of anythin' certaintly, but count your blessin's. You ain't fell in the river either. An' be this an' be that, we make out to get along. We never died a winter yet."
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