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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.