It sounds like sweetened cooked applesuace with eggs to bind it? I don't know about that.
Wormed fruit sounds like the proper ingredient!
The point would be to use it up and not throw it away, like Andrew threw rotten fruit under the barn. He must not have heard of this concoction.
It's funny but I just noticed a reference to Thanksgiving today in the trial. It's pretty long, but it's interesting:
Q. I call your attention to a time when you saw a man there upon the steps talking with him. Do you recall a time when you saw a man upon the steps talking with him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When was it?
A. Well, it was some time before the murder.
Q. Was anything in the nature of a threat---
MR. KNOWLTON. I beg your pardon; wait. Won't you fix the time more perfectly.
Q. Can you tell any nearer than that, Mrs. Durfee?
A. Well, no, I cannot; it was before Thanksgiving, I know.
Q. Before the previous Thanksgiving?
A. Yes.
MR. KNOWLTON. If your Honors please, I desire to object to the evidence. We have been very careful not to expose the nature of any evidence and I do not suppose our friends want to either. I am aware of the nature of the evidence. I might ask counsel whether they expect to connect this in any way, any further than this circumstance would of itself
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connect it?
MR. ROBINSON. Not at present. We will not discuss that just now, at this time, I mean.
MR. KNOWLTON. Well, it might have to do with the admission of the evidence.
MASON, C. J. Perhaps counsel can fix the time a little more accurately.
Q. How near Thanksgiving would you say this was, Mrs. Durfee?
A. Well, I couldn't say; I couldn't say that.
Q. Well, do you locate it as about Thanksgiving time, is that what you mean?
A. Well, I lost my sister, and I know it happened after my sister died, and she died the 27th of October, I believe. The 27th of October she died. And what I heard I heard before then, because I went home and told it.
Q. How long before that?
A. Well, I couldn't say, because it didn't trouble me any, or I didn't---
Q. Well, is that the time that you fix it by?
A. Yes, I was going for medicine for her, and as I was coming home---
MR. KNOWLTON. I beg your pardon. And may I ask a question, your Honor, as to that subject?
Q. (By Mr. Knowlton.) Didn't you tell me that it was two months before your sister died, you thought?
A. No, I don't know as I did, because I couldn't.
Q. Well, don't you think it was about two months before your sister died?
A. Well, it couldn't be any more.
Q. Well, don't you think it was about that?
A. Well, my sister
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was taken to her bed the second time.
Q. And don't you think it was about two months?
A. Well, it wasn't any more.
Q. (By Mr. Jennings.) Well, do you think it was as much as two months?
A. Well, I shouldn't judge it was. I didn't put the day or the date down.
MASON, C. J. It seems to the Court too remote, and it is excluded.
MR. JENNINGS. I would like to put it in proper form, your Honor. I don't know that it is quite subject to exception, but I would like to save the right if it is. I have it stated here; I do not care to read it aloud.
The defence offered to prove that witness saw Mr. Borden standing in door talking with a man; heard angry words; heard the man say to Mr. Borden, "You have cheated me and I'll fix you for it."
This was objected to by counsel for the Government and was excluded by the Court, to which ruling the defendant excepted.
We keep ours simple: immediate family and standard fare from turkey to pumpkin pie. Like Audrey, I find it vastly preferable to sprawling get togethers that invariably bring a few clashers together. Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to all (and may you steer clear of the Mall)!