Identifier: genealogyoftenna00tenn (find matches)
Title: Genealogy of the Tennant family; their ancestors and descendants through many generations
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Tennant, Albert Milton, 1854-
Subjects: Tennant family
Publisher: Dunkirk, N.Y., Dunkirk Printing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-. iuerything a))out that early home gave me great delight in myboyhood, and their memory is sweet toda\-. Idie old cat, the oldyellow dog that Delos shot, the blue rats that used to tri)j acrossmy face while 1 was in the trundle bed; the bee-hives at the eastend of the house; the l)arn with its big swing-beam; the old brin-dle cow; mothers fried cakes and cookies that Delos and I usedto steal between meals; the big dutch firej^lace in the chimney ofwhich the swallows Iniilt their nests in the summertime; the
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w H-J Oh>—( « < o XQ o Tennant Family Genealogy. 233 flocks of swallows that built their adobe homes under the eavesof the barn; the little brook that i)la3ed on its silver flutes as itrambled through the pasture; the many black and red s((uirrelsthat played in the trees or scampered along the fence rails; theowls that hooted their solemn notes in the evening time; thegreat flocks of pigeons that ))assed eastward; all, all these andmuch more than I have space to write about, were ministering an-gels paying my young spirits dail)- \isitations, making home andlife happy and blest. The clearing up of the old farm was a source of constant ex-citement. To see the oxen draw the big logs together; to wit-ness the burning of the great logheaps; to see the wild forestgiving waA to the strokes of the civilizing ax; then to see beau-tiful crops of wheat spring u)) out of the mold and ashes oftrees; such scenes were enough to make young and i)atriotic Am-erican bo3s and girls wild with e

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