THAT CHRISTMAS TURKEY
The Christmas season was at hand, and young Newlywed had received u turkey from his employer. " You are quite sure you can manage it. darling?" he queried anxiously for the twentieth time.
"Why, of course, George," retorted the young wife. "All right." he observed, "Don't for, get the stuffing." "Why," he remarked blandly as he
Xurso—"'Morcy nn us. I5ol)l>it<! You liavcn t already eaten up Noali and !ii» wife and all the chocolate animals in the Ark y Boli!)ic—'"Not 'arf, nurse! And I'd have oaf., n the Ark. hut it Avas made <">f cardlmard, .so liahv's finishing it up, ;:.5 lies not .so pa: tikler!"
cut the bird a few limns later, ''wbnt ever i» this?" "That, darling, that's the stuffing," said tli.- v< iing wife with a smale. " But it's green—it's rhubarb!"' lio gasped. "Of course, dear. What did yon suppose [ should give you? Or did you really think I had never heard of turkey rhubarb before?" Then tin y finished that turkey with sugar and cream! about a paralysis of a soul.—Epietetus. AYe all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it, but none of us is troubled
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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199THAT CHRISTMAS TURKEY Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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