Acknowledgment
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,
BY J. S. REDFIELD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New-York.
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PREFACE.
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Shall the glorions festival of Thanksgiving, now yearly
celebrated all over the American Union, (said the author to
himself one day,) be ushered in with no other trumpet
than the proclammation of State-Governors? May we not
have a little holiday-book of our own, in harmony with
that cherished Anniversary, which, while it pleases your
fellow-countrymen, should it have that good fortune, may
acquaint distant strangers with the observance of that
happy custom of our country? With the hope that it
may be so received, and as a kindly word spoken to all
classes and sections of his fellow citizens, awakening a feeling
of union and fraternal friendship at this genial season, the
writer presents this little volume of home characters and
incidents.
November, 1850.
Preliminaries
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
THE LANDSCAPE OF THE STORY.
CHAPTER II.
ARRIVAL OF THE MERCHANT AND HIS PEOPLE.
CHAPTER III.
THE FARMER-FOLKS FROM THE WEST.
CHAPTER IV.
THE CHILDREN.
CHAPTER V.
THE FASHIONABLE LADY AND HER SON.
CHAPTER VI.
THE FORTUNES OF THE FAMILY CONSIDERED.
CHAPTER VII.
THE THANKSGIVING SERMON.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DINNER.
CHAPTER IX.
THE NEW-COMERS.
CHAPTER X.
THE CONCLUSION.
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Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889 [1850], Chanticleer: a thanksgiving story of the Peabody family (B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston) [word count] [eaf267].
