[1729] in Humor
HUMOR CLASSIC: On Thanksgiving
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Fri Nov 29 10:13:25 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:08:26 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:53:34 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
This is a selection from a book called "Then Some Other Things
Happened", a collection of short pieces about history written
by eighth graders and compiled by Bill Lawrence, a teacher and
columnist.
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PILGRAM INTERUPTERS
The Pilgrams were a bunch of English wonderers who wanted to
worship as they wanted to. They excaped the Church of England
and came over here because they heard that American churches
were different.
The May Flower was the ship with which they came in. It
didn't have a bathroom on board so there was quite an oder.
Priscillia Mullins was the captain.
First the Pilgrams had gone to Holland but left when their
children started developing customs there. After a stopover at
Williamsbug when a large storm blew them off course they landed
on a big, slimey rock in Massatusetts. They spent the winter
there.
Before they got off the ship even they drew up an agreement
for the people of Plymouth to agree on the voting for governors
and congressmen. They kept this hid in the May Flower Compact.
Lord Delaware was elected the first governor of Plymouth Rock.
A friendly Indian named Rhone Oak showed the Pilgrams how to
plant corn by putting it in the ground. Rhone Oak had been the
first Indian to come to America and always wanted a beer. He
traveled around with Miles Standy and translated language. He
knew enough English to interupt.
Another interupter for the white man was Squanto, who was
called that because he was so short. Squanto drew up a
declaration to give the settlers freedom of goverment in the
new land. The Pilgrams gave the Indians thanks for all this
and that's what started Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrams then appointed Thanksgiving as a national
holiday. Abraham Lincoln later pronounced it and gave it to
them and it soon became a national holiday all around the
world.
These people always wore old shoes with a big buckel on the
top of them. The men wore pants that only came a little ways
past the knees and the girls wore funny bonets.
But if these people wouldn't had of come to America the
United States wouldn't be like it is today.
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