Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — THANKSGIVING DAY. [ARTICLE]

THANKSGIVING DAY.

5 1 roif *ll the wondrous bkigii 'M ■ “ these days afford, Kd here Xam again this year, prepared to do my part At reader at’ of thanks devout, most tuunblT fiotn this here sinful life. Vltboueh I vow I’ve seed of late a mighty lot of strife. My craps went hack on me this year; my Jersey cow. she’s deed. - - Nd I for sixteen mortal weeks lay groanin’ on my bed With thrumatix; ’nd cracky! Gee! It wasn’t Atou ye. Then my Utile mare—the speedy sorrel one —~ f sot so much store on—one day she shied nd run away, Nd lamed herself for life, ’ad smashed to smithereens the shay, , 1 Nd then my darter Susan, she eloped the forth - v* .'vnr ~j With th it young Silas Tompkins. He'ya, Worthless sort o’ ‘coon He never earned an honest cent, 'nd, far aa-X : can set-. Aln£t never likely to begin The couple live# Nd wife's gone kind o' flighty, too: It was in c. . <lt ei “ «Hn _ For me osell for rags the sock she kep' h«r savlu’r in 'Nd yet, you know, I’m thankful, spito of aU my beastly luck. Because I don’t get flabbergasted ev’ry time I'm st nek. [know there'slean *ndfat-for all, 'ndPvejust had my lean, .- . -' . ‘Nd now a juicy slice of fat’ll come my way. I ...ween: -■ : : • - ’Nd even if it doesn't come, you’ll hear my thank ul rouf Because tl i-tu dog-goned year just past ’• behind me—not before. . —Harper's Magazine for November