harvest supper

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At the harvest supper or dinner the man who “carried the Pig” gets one or more dumplings made in the form of pigs.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

While she helps to serve the harvest supper In the lantern-lighted village hall, Moonlight rises on the burning woodland, Echoes dwindle from the distant Fall.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

"Evy Austen put it into poetry, the eldest of the girls, and they made me recite it at the harvest supper."

From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Alas, the glad and sad times alike must die, and the dull prose of October follows hard on the wild jollity of the harvest supper, while Winter peers with haggard gaze over Autumn's shoulder!

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James

One day during the harvest season, when this rich farmer’s corn had been all cut down and housed, he invited the neighbors to a harvest supper.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)