THE THIEF.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 3

THE THIEF.

Epicures, prefer the wild turkey to the tame, but clergymen are not epicurean, so when a certain preacher was asked to dine with a member of his flock, lie mentioned casually that a domestic- turkey was what he liked. Accordingly, tho member duly impressed it upon his negro servant that tho turkey to bo served at the dinner must be a tamo one, and not wild as was the custom at the table. "Understand," said tho host, "a domestic turkey — buy one, and make no mistake." The negro, servant said ho understood, and though the family funds •were low at tho time, the dinner proved most elaborate. How so little money had gone such a long way. puzzled the host — till he started to carve the turkey, then a lot of shot fell upon tho platter. "Ezekial," said tho host severely, "I thought 1 told you to get a domestic turkey?" "Yaas, sail," said Ezekial; "that there's a real domestic turkey, Sah." "But," objected the host, "look at tho shot in it." Ezekial grinned sheepishly. "Yaas, Sah; I sees de shot, but them thar shot wasn't meant- for de turkey — .they was meant for me, Sahl" , ..,»..• , . . *;*?***(»;..