harvest supper

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"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)

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)

The common meal, like the festival at the old tribal folkmote—the mahl or malum—or the Buryate aba, or the parish feast and the harvest supper, was simply an affirmation of brotherhood.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Often I have heard it sung in shrill, piping voice at harvest supper or barn dance. 

From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

And yet it was worth something, too, to be the one to authorize that harvest supper in the big barn, in the confidence that it would be anything but revelry. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary