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On he slept during prayers, during the hour spent at the Blauen Bock, when the Hofbauer treated the priest and his guests on this auspicious thanksgiving-day. He woke up, however, to do his duty like a man "with a mouthful of supper" whilst the horses were being put into the gigs.
It was not often used, this room, scarcely ever now, except upon Sunday, or on those two grave holidays that the Newells kept, Thanksgiving- and Fast-Day. This was Thanksgiving-Day. The snow without was falling thick and fast. It came in great eddies and white whirls, obscuring the prospect from the windows and scudding madly around the corners.
The lessons a boy learns among tavern loungers do not generally make him any better, to say the least. I wish you would keep away from such places I should feel a good deal easier if you would." The subject was dropped, and dinner, the event of Thanksgiving-day, in every New England home, soon began to engross the attention of the household. It was a pleasant feast, to old and young.
When I get into any serious scrape, in an enemy's country, may I be lucky enough to have you at my elbow, to pull me out of it! The men seem to have enjoyed the novel event of Thanksgiving-Day; they have had company and regimental prize-shootings, a minimum of speeches and a maximum of dinner. Bill of fare: two beef-cattle and a thousand oranges.
"Well, I'm afraid you'll think I won't make them good enough, but I do want to make the pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving-day. Papa would be so surprised and pleased." "Why, of course you may, child; I'll be very glad to be relieved of that duty, and cook will have all she can attend to." "When is Uncle Fred coming?" said Frank, as they all sat at dinner that evening.
It was on a Thanksgiving-Day, fifteen years ago, that the boy Samson, then seventeen years old, was brought home drunk and bleeding. He had passed the previous night at a ball at the tavern, against the express command of his father, who would have gone to fetch him away, but that he could not bear to enter upon a scene he thought so wicked, and especially upon such an errand.
"There ought to be some syrup for the kids," suggested Herrick; "they like syrup." "Yes, syrup for the kids, red syrup at that!" said the captain. "And those things they pull at, and go pop, and have measly poetry inside. And then I tell you we'd have a thanksgiving-day and Christmas-tree combined. Great Scott, but I would like to see the kids!
He had got drunk, "gloriously drunk" his friends at the tavern styled it, and had been carried in that state home. Oh, the bitterness of the misery of that Thanksgiving-Day to Jacob Newell! He may live a hundred years and never know such another. The next day Samson awoke from a wretched stupor to find himself weak, nervous, and suffering from a blinding headache.
A new set of directors laughed him, and others like him, to scorn. He would have sold his stock, but he found it quoted at only twenty-five cents on the dollar, and that price he could not prevail upon himself to take. So he sat on this drear Thanksgiving-Day despondent beside his hearth.
I thought this did well enough for my very first interchange of dialogue with my recruits. November 27, 1862. Thanksgiving-Day; it is the first moment I have had for writing during these three days, which have installed me into a new mode of life so thoroughly that they seem three years.
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