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| Hank Petrie
| and His Turkey
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L. K. DEVENDORF
[Copyright, 19 ) 5 , by C. B. Etherlngtore]
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“STOCK GET OI-T?” led bim into va
rious schemes.
It made him cautious, the cautiousness
that bred laziness and shiftlessness,
1 oi when the roof leaked he put a pan
under the hole, instead of making the
lop.ilrs. Some one suggested shingles,
“U ell, I’ll tell you,” he replied. “ 1 'ou
see my ladder is old. The rounds are
rotten, and I have a family to support,
Suppose a round should break and I
break my leg—who'd look after the old
woman and the kids? Besides, the kid
der is part of the garden fence, and
as for puttin’ the pan under the hole,
why, that's no bother. If the old wom¬
an wants to use the pan, why, she can
wait till it stops rainin’—a rest will do
her good anyway. There’s no use mak
in‘ a slave out of a woman because
slip's ambitious. Besides, on a rainy
dry a man can’t do nothin’ but mend
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HEN TURKEY ON HER NEST.
harness anyway. My harness is bor
rowed. What’s the good of mendin’ a
borrowed harness? No sooner a man
gets it mended than the feller comes
after it. I never knew it io fail.”
When every one else was planting po
tatoes Ilank was wondering if it was
going to be a dry summer or like the
one they had nine years ago. And when
Bill Gleason, with u boldness that lie
might have known would have stirred
the very dregs of Hank’s mental cup of
reason, asked him why he didn’t turn
up u little ground and put in a few
hills ol potatoes. Hank tapped the how)
of his pipe and replied:
"What's the use? If It's a good year
for potatoes most anybody will give
me enough to carry me through the win¬
ter; If its a had year, why, they won’t
nobody have any.” This closed the po¬
tato incident.
Ilank was the possessor of an old
bay mare. The feed was very poor in
Hank’s pasture. “Jennie knows every
blade of grass In that pasture,” said In*,
“and she's got every one timed when it
will be long enough to eat again.”
Squire Whipple had a line piece of
grass growing next above Hank's
place. About dusk every evening the
philosopher would slowly saunter
down tiie road and inquire after ihe
squire, lie would spend a few min¬
utes hanging over the fence and notice
if the squire was preparing for bed,
talk a few minutes and then go back
home. Jennie, when it grew darker,
would be led into the squire's meadow
for her evening meal. of course it
wash t long before the squire noticed
Thai his meadow was fast becoming
bald in spots and suspected Hank and
Jennie, Hank from liis lack of good
pasture and Jennie from her unusual
rotundity of person.
Becoming aware of the squire's sus¬
picions, Ilank devoted part of otie
evening to taking down l >art the
. . and
t-'P.H' s em-e turning Fan, tiie
equire s own horse, into the meadow.
1 v^t umni.iig the squire was out early
nmuumg fence.
.lOCK ge. out.- asked Hank.
' xes: last nigat old Fan got into the
timothy,” and then w'th just the slight¬
est touch of sarcasm, he added, ’It
wouldn't be doin' any great harm if
you'd patch up your fence h bit,
Hank.”
"W - I guess old Fan wouldn’t find
flny S'.'-’it pickin' over in n :y pasture.
squire, ’ replied Hank with
to.aeu. „ n4 , cU tack lu to tor
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was shiftless.
This was accept¬
ed where he was
known with an
“amen.” Hank's
mind was active
In spite of his
great infirmity.
It made him a
philosopher, not
a dreamer, but
an earthly resi¬
dent. This Same
mind of
went down through your orchard to
ward the henhouse. I s’pose she's In
with yours.”
“Hem!’ slowly replied tlio squire,
thinking slowly just what Hank’s
move was going to he. “Suppose you’d
know her, Ilank, If you’d see her?”
Here is where the venerable squire
thought he had Ilank effectually stop
l>ed
"Yes, I think I would, squire. She
had a piece of red flannel tied to one of
her legs.” Here the squire lost the first
checker.
“They ilank. ain’t no such turkey down
there, 1 don’t believe you ever
started home with her.” Hank moved
again,
"Well, now, see here, squire, if they
ain’t no such turkey dowu there, why,
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“there's my bird,
SQVIRE.”
said the squire.
“Well, then, if tliey's a bird down
there with a piece of red flannel on her
1 g she don't belong to you, does she'-”
asked Hank,
“No. she don't. I. But 1 know well
enough that they ain't none down there
that don't belong there.” Hank wag
getting ready to “king.”
“All right, squire, all right; but r sup- i
pose they is—then—well, then-slie be
longs to some one else, don’t she?”
“Yes, I suppose she does," relnetant
Jy admitted the squire. So they jogge.1
along down to the barnyard, and there
in the yard was a fat turkey with a
piece of flaring red flannel tied to one
of its iegs.
"'Jlicrc's my bird, squire, sure '
enough,” said the crafty Hank, and the
squire once more felt the unsatisfying
but convincing force of Hank’ s rea
soning.
“Take her, Hank. She’s yours, I j
guess,” said the squire as he sat down I
tto turtey wiib It, raSGauT
ebeumitbe- x>f the tfiTfff growth of
grass In Ilsnk’s well cropped pasture.
Ilank lacked the ability to convert
Ms peculiar mental talents Into some¬
thing of commercial value. It can
perhaps be best Illustrated by bis
method of woodchuck hunting. Hank
was the possessor of a gun that had a
recoil like a mountain howitzer. He
was particularly friendly toward It,
for he said there was a strt of sympa
thetlc boud between them, •‘We both
kick when we have to work,” as he ex
pressed it. -
When the woodchuck fever was on
he would shoulder the gun and start
out. Sometimes he was successful and
sometimes otherwise. When he brought
one home he would skin it and tuck
the skin on the door of the barn. Then,
when seme admiring youngster would
come along, Hank would give him the
skin he had so carefully tanned to
show him where there was another
woodchuck. Some one asked Hank
how he ever expected to make any¬
thing out of this kind of a deal.
“Well,” replied Hank, “some time I'll
find a hole with two in it.”
The proprietor of the hotel at the
Corners had advertised a turkey raiiie
the day before Thanksgiving. Hank
went, took a few chances, but was not
successful. He spent what money he
had, and it occurred to him on the way
home that it was going to be a pretty
dull Thanksgiving without turkey,
just about this time the erratic sage's
wonderful mentality asserted Itself,
lie stopped Jennie about opposite the
squire's place, climbed out of his wag
on and went around behind the lien
house. In a few minutes he came
back, got into his wagon and went on
home. The next morning Ilank up¬
peared at the squire’s,
“Been down to the henhouse yet,
squire?”
“No, not yet. Why?”
‘•Well, last night when I was eomln’
Borne my turkey got excited, hopped
ollt of ttje wagon, and before I could
stop her she flew over the fence and
of course. But
so long's you
ain’t been dowu
there, how you
goln' to tell?
You don't nimd
goin’ there with
me to look, do
you? You know
all your tur¬
keys. You ain’t
got any wi ll a
piece of red
flannel on their
legs, have you?”
“No, I ain’t,”
The Two Goblii. 2
By Uezekiah Butierwortb
T
turkey returns to the home roofs an.l
door.viml trees from the holds, bringing
her flock with her.
This holiday parade takes place near
“killing time.” She approaches the
farmstead slowly aiul cautiously, and
strutting is done the eoc •k turkey
does it in the sunny air. The lire of
the sun seems falling in showers in
those days. The air is indeed as bright
as U used to lie in summer time, but
uot <]>iite so warm. The air is still and
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THE TUEKEy SELLER Hi
mous shipyard a giant of a man named
Ruggles. lie was a studentfof natural
giant '
sleeps.
The good woman of the thrifty farm
kept boarders, and she had many now
as building. it was When the high tide of the ship-’
Mr. Buggies came she
knew not how to accommodate him;
her beds were all full except one in a
little room under the cockloft.
“You are a six footer,” she said to
the same Mr. Ruggles, “and something
ever. I have but one bed left, and that
is one that the chore boy used to oceu
py, but you will have to make the best
of it.”
* And that I trill,” said the giant.
He did. He slept fairly well, for
there was an east wind. That was the
night before the hen turkey came home
with all her feathery magnificence for
Thanksgiving.
There was no cast wind on the fol¬
lowing night after the lady turkey’s
regimental return. The contented bird
ordered her flock to roost on the ridge¬
pole over a little window under the
eaves trough, which was bowered with
woodbine turning red. The flock was
ho numerous that tlu*y crowded to
gether and said “Quit!” to each other
on getting settled into silence', hut they
were arranged In a row at last, and
the world was silent.
n £gles, of the .
to Ins , ; “ long limbs, went
room, unconscious of the com
pany on the ridgepole. The night was
\uy he window hot and the good wom^p had left
open, after brushing away
the wasp nests and cobwebs.
“Ibis !s stifling.” said he. after sink
m« down on lus narrow bed. “I can
will wi»a.L fdo? ■ I*wm j i
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f’ 1,0 out of the window hi, ova, wide t«:t and
the apart
eaves trough and cool wood
Moved.
I have moved my .hoe shop from
basement to my old quarters,
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comes a proud day in
Indian summer to an old
farm, a day of real impor
lance. It is when the hen
bine, and gav. a snore and was in ob¬
livion.
The turkevs WPr0 ,
mei ‘ t ,’ f Ul1 «t was, handy as it
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°' ie ° f e tLeU1 Stepped dowu very care¬
fully and lighted upon Mr. Ruggles’
log, just abovo the foot, ami gave a
note of satisfaction. The other follow¬
ed the example. Mr. Ruggles slept on,
and the two gobblers were soon asleep
perched on his two legs and nestled
close to his feet.
Of what Mr. Ruggles dreamed we
cannot be
iug he thought
he heard some
one say, "Air.
Ituggl.s, Mr.
Ruggles!”
“Hey.
Thesamevoice
said in a tone
of surprise,
“Mr. Buggies.”
Illspersonality
easily changed
the “Go” sound
into “Ru.”
'lhen another
v0,efi said in a
tone of equal TWO GOBLINS t LEW
surprise, “Mr. INTO THE AIK.
Ruggles.” And Mr. Ruggles started
!l!1<1 began to draw in ids legs when
two goblins flew into the air. In relit
Wig this adventure he was asked how
knew that they were goblins
’’Because they both said thl so nil ' of 1
themselves ” said he “I t
that they could not carry me awav
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was too much for them what “A h oLr
eve- by
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, ,i U ‘ e gmUn<1 One of
looked . , to ’ them
up the ridgepole and said.
Mr. Ruggles,” or what sounded like it
to suggestions of inner consciousness.
"They both appeared greatly sur-
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0,1 tv they clipped their words. I won
der if they aur the goblins fly away.
I will never put my two feet out of
the window again ”
And ever nfte ward the careful tnan
swung high UU broad; * by day nnd
up (dn f,-H Hl mght after u,#
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The moon comes up over X.f }ii I
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night turns into another coy not qr,
so warm as the sun daybut on
very warm.
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been built, and among tiiem the C n.-i
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ship, commanded by < nptain Kendrick
that discovered the Columbia river.
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