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Title: Chanticleer
A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family

Author: Cornelius Mathews

Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25045]

Language: English

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CHANTICLEER:

A

THANKSGIVING STORY

OF

THE PEABODY FAMILY.

SECOND EDITION.

BOSTON: B. B. MUSSEY & CO.
NEW-YORK: J. S. REDFIELD.
1850.

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.

PREFACE.

Shall the glorious 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 proclamations 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.

CONTENTS.

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 FORTUNES OF THE FAMILY CONSIDERED.

CHAPTER V.

THE CHILDREN.

CHAPTER VI.

THE FASHIONABLE LADY AND HER SON.

CHAPTER VII.

THE THANKSGIVING SERMON.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE DINNER.

CHAPTER IX.

THE NEW-COMERS.

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