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                  CHRISTMAS AT FORT EDMONTON - 1847


 "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...

 ...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.

 From:

 WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA

 Paul Kane

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Merry Christmas

Bob Kenyon, Trainer III                FREDDY'S PLACE BBS
Edmonton Regional Council              (403)456-4241
Edmonton, AB. Canada

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