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- From: bob.kenyon@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Bob Kenyon)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: XMAS 1847
- Message-ID: <1236.1087.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:44:00 GMT
- Reply-To: bob.kenyon@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Bob Kenyon)
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- Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241
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- CHRISTMAS AT FORT EDMONTON - 1847
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- "No tablecloth shed its snowy whiteness over the board; no silver
- candelabra or gaudy china interfered with its simple magnificence.
- The bright tin plates and dishes reflected golly faces, and
- burnished gold can give no truer zest to a feast...
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- ...At the head, before Mr. Harriett, was a large dish of boiled
- buffalo hump; at the foot smoked a boiled buffalo calf...My
- pleasing duty was to help a dish of mouffle, or dried moose nose;
- the gentleman on my left distributed with graceful impartiality,
- the white fish, delicately browned in buffalo marrow. The worthy
- priest helped the buffalo, whilst Mr. Rundell cut up beaver tails.
- Nor was the other gentleman left unemployed, as all his time was
- occupied in dissecting a roast goose. The centre of the table was
- graced with piles of potatoes, turnips, and bread conveniently
- placed, so that each could help himself without interrupting the
- labours of his companions. Such was our jolly Christmas dinner at
- Edmonton; and long will it remain in my memory, although no pies,
- or pudding, or blane manges, shed their fragrance over the scene.
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- From:
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- WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA
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- Paul Kane
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- Merry Christmas
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- Bob Kenyon, Trainer III FREDDY'S PLACE BBS
- Edmonton Regional Council (403)456-4241
- Edmonton, AB. Canada
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