Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — OLD THANKSGIVING FUN. [ARTICLE]

OLD THANKSGIVING FUN.

Bev. Dr. Talmage Ref ills a Thanksgiving of His Boyhood. How my mind is crowded with Thanksgiving memories! On no other day does my memory become such a kaleidoscope, and as I sit here in my darkened room and write, almost every minute the scene changes. I give to the kaleidoscope of memory a turn, and there they are, natural as life, around the country hearth on a cold winter night. I hear the hickory fire crackle, and iee the shadows flit up