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Thanksgiving Stories
A collection of stories for Thanksgiving, with links to even more Thanksgiving
stories.
Thanksgiving
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THE FIRST HARVEST-HOME IN PLYMOUTH
After prayer and fasting and a farewell feast, the Pilgrim Fathers left the City of Leyden, and sought the new and unknown land. ``So they lefte y goodly & pleasante citie,'' writes their historian Bradford, ``which had been ther resting place near 12 years, but they knew they were pilgrimes & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to y Heavens their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits.'' When, after many vexing days upon the deep, the...
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farmhouse a very happy home. November had come; the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the harvest...
SAINT CUTHBERT'S EAGLE
Once upon a time, the good Saint Cuthbert of Lindesfarne, went forth from his monastery to preach to the poor. He took with him a young lad as his only attendant. Together they walked along the dusty way. The heat of the noonday sun beat upon their heads, and fatigue overcame them. ``Son,'' said Saint Cuthbert, ``do you know any one on the road, whom we may ask for food and a place in which to rest?'' ``I was just thinking the same thing,'' answered the...
THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST
The Master of the Harvest walked by the side of his cornfields in the springtime. A frown was on his face, for there had been no rain for several weeks, and the earth was hard from the parching of the east winds. The young wheat had not been able to spring up. So as he looked over the long ridges that stretched in rows before him, he was vexed and began to grumble and say:-- ``The harvest will be backward, and all things will go wrong.'' Then he...
MORE THANKSGIVING STORIES
THE HORN OF PLENTY
Aeneus, King of Aetolia, had a daughter whose name was Deianira.
So beautiful was the maiden that her fame spread throughout the world,
and many princes came to woo her. Among these were two strangers, who
drove all the other suitors from the hall of King Aeneus. One was
Hercules, huge of limb and broad of shoulder. He was clad in the skins
of beasts, and carried in his hand a knotted club. His tangled hair
hung down upon his brawny neck, and his fierce eyes gleamed from...
HOW INDIAN CORN CAME INTO THE WORLD
Long, long ago, in a beautiful part of this
country, there lived an Indian with his wife and children. He was poor
and found it hard to provide food enough for his family. But though
needy he was kind and contented, and always gave thanks to the Great
Spirit for everything that he received. His eldest son, Wunzh, was
likewise kind and gentle and thankful of heart, and he longed greatly
to do something for his people. The time came that Wunzh reached the
age when...
THE SPIRIT OF THE CORN
There was a time, says the Iroquois grandmother,
when it was not needful to plant the corn- seed nor to hoe the fields,
for the corn sprang up of itself, and filled the broad meadows. Its
stalks grew strong and tall, and were covered with leaves like waving
banners, and filled with ears of pearly grain wrapped in silken green
husks. In those days Onatah, the Spirit of the Corn, walked upon the
earth. The sun lovingly touched her dusky face with the blush of the...
THE EARS OF WHEAT
BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM Ages upon ages ago, says the German grandmother,
when angels used to wander on earth, the ground was more fruitful than
it is now. Then the stalks of wheat bore not fifty or sixty fold, but
four times five hundred fold. Then the wheat- ears grew from the bottom
to the top of the stalk. But the men of the earth forgot that this
blessing came from God, and they became idle and selfish. One day a
woman went through a wheat-field, and her little child, who...
THE PUMPKIN PIRATES
Once upon a time, one Lucian the Greek was filled
with a desire to see strange countries, and especially to discover
whether there was any opposite shore to the ocean by which he lived. So
having purchased a vessel, he strengthened it for a voyage, that he
knew would without doubt be long and stormy. Then he chose fifty stout
young fellows having the same love of adventure as himself, and next he
hired the best captain that could be got for money, and put a store...
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