Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — KEPT THE GOBBLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KEPT THE GOBBLER.

Farmer Bolton Finds He Has Many Reasons to Be Thankful.

LAMED if I quite agree with this yjWI'"JE" > ) here wa y of regala tin’ our givin’ of ■ ! "\\ thanks by law an’ ) p r 0 c l erma tions,” y said Farmer Bolton in a meditative P" way to his wife. “It looks too much like settin’ a stake an’ a servin’ notice that when you

reach it you must bow down an’ make your acknowledgment, no matter what your real feelin’s is. I can’t see that we’ve got much ter be thankful fur this year, Liddy.” “O, yes, we have. We ” “Hol* on, now, hoi’ on, Liddy. That’s a way you have of rushin’ me with argyments an’ downin’ me afore I gets rightly started. Jest wait UU I git through. Our

crops was mostly & 'ailer. owin to too much rain. What we did harvest didn’t really pay fur th’ raisin’. That two-year-old colt was killed by lightnin*, most of our standin’ timber was destroyed by fire an’ a good many rods of fence went th’ same way. Now you can’t honestly say, Liddy, that we’re as fur along as we was this time a year ago.” “I didn’t know you were so worldly, Josh. You talk as though we ought to rebel against Providence whenever the credit side of our bank book doesn’t have a steady growth. We’re both in th’ prime of life with good health. We’ve been given more time to pay off the mortgage. None of the great disasters we read about has touched us. There is plenty in the cellar and the granary to live on if we were without a dollar. That state of affairs would be a godsend to tens of thousands this winter, Josh. And you know that Jimmie pulled through after the doctor gave him up and is as hardy as a knot!” “So he did, the blessed little imp of mischief. But I won’t dispute with you, Liddy. You don’t give a feller no fair chance. I was goin’ to sell that 20-pound gobbler, but we’ll jest keep him fur a center piece Thanksgivin’.”