AN EXPENSIVE TURKEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 3

AN EXPENSIVE TURKEY.

Livixr. near me, write* a Kentucky farmer, is AJr Don't-believe, an old-fashioned honest farmer, who has a local reputation a- a successful tv« key hunter. In all his life he had never killed a gobbler weighing more than twenty-two or twenty-six pounds ; lie frequently and emphatically said that this talk of the bronze turkey weighing thirty and forty pounds was all a hoax to induce people to buy them. A few weeks ago lie represented this, adding, "lam ready and anxious to pay one dollar a pound for a turkey that will weigh forty pounds and over." "Do you mean, Mr D., what you say?" soid a bystander. "I certainly do, every word. Bring the turkey over ; the money is ready." The next morning the turkey was taken over. " What have you there ?" inquired Mr I). " Your turkpv."' '* How much does he weigh ?" "If you ha\ c a good pair of scale", wei^h and .see." He placed the pea at the 25 pound notch, 30, 35, 40. " Forty-three, that's it, forty-three dollars ; here is your money," good humouredly. Mr D. is a representative farmer the world overthrifty, honest and sensible in all that pertains to his immediate business ; beyond that credulous, an easy subject for all sorts of impositions, incredulous when to believe would be to his advantage.