AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and Tales. This is your host John Haggadorn. Today, a special |
| 0:36.8 | Thanksgiving story for you from Louisa May Alcott called an old-fashioned Thanksgiving. 60 years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills lived Farmer Bassett with a house full of |
| 0:56.9 | sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. |
| 1:00.1 | They were poor and money but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, |
| 1:07.2 | warmed, and closed at the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farmhouse a very happy home. |
| 1:15.8 | November had come, the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the |
| 1:20.9 | harvest that rewarded the summer's hard work. |
| 1:24.4 | The big kitchen was a jelly place just now, for in the great fireplace were it a cheerful |
| 1:29.3 | fire. |
| 1:30.7 | On the walls hung garlands of dried apples, onions, and corn. |
| 1:35.0 | Up aloft from the beams shown crooked-necked squashes, juicy hams, and dried venison. |
| 1:41.3 | For in those days, deer still haunted the deep forests, and hunters flourished. |
| 1:46.2 | Savory smells were in the air. On the crane hung steaming kettles, and down among the red |
| 1:51.6 | embers, copper saucepan |
| 1:53.4 | simmered, all suggestive of some approaching feast. |
| 1:57.0 | A white-headed baby lay in the old blue cradle that had rocked seven other |
| 2:01.2 | babies, now and then lifting his head to look out, like a round |
| 2:05.1 | full moon, then subsided to kick and crow contentedly and suck the rosy apple he had no teeth |
| 2:11.0 | to bite. |
| 2:12.8 | Two small boys sat on the wooden saddle shelling corn for popping and picking out the |
| 2:17.8 | biggest nuts from the Goodly store their own hands had gathered in October. Four young girls stood at the long dresser, busily chopping meat, pounding |
| 2:26.8 | spice and slicing apples, and the tongues of Tilly, Prew, Roxy and Rody went as fast as their hands. |
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