The Seizure of Turkey

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 October 1915, Page 3

The Seizure of Turkey

To the turkey that was tame epicures tho country over prefer the turkey fhat was wild. However, clergymen are notoriously not epicurean m their taste.s. and a certain Methodist preacher ; ;i Baltimore had once definitely expressed a preference for the doinestc--binl. Accordingly, when, one winter's day, He accepted an invitation to diuo with a member of his congregation, that member, in ordering the dinner of the coloured servant, laid stress upon this point. "Now, remember, Ezekiel." he commanded. "Doctor Fourthly likes domestic turkey. You will, therefore, discontinue- your usual practice, and get not a wild but a tame one." "Yassir," nodded the darky. "Understand?" repeated the host-to-bc. "A domestic turkey." Again the ne-gro assented, and, though the family funds were at a law ebb, the dinner of his providing proved most elaborate. How so little money went so far was a mystery—until the host .began to carve the turkey. Then a thimlbleful of shot rolled out upon the platter. ".Ezekiel" said the host, severely. "J thought I told you to get a domestic turkey." "Yaseir," said Ezekiel. "That there's a domestic turkey. Ali knows it" "But," objected the host, "look at the shot in it." Ezekiel grinned sheepishly. "Yassir." he stammered. r 'Ah—a.h sees 'em, sir; but them tha-r shot wasn't meant for the turkey, sir; they was meant Term«."