TURKEYLESS.
It was the morning after Thanksgiving. Laughing gayly, " swapping " nuts and raisins saved from the dinners of the day before, the merry children ramped into school and took their seats at the seund of the bell. " And now, children," Baid the sweetfaced teachor, " wb« had turkey for their Thanksgiviug dinners?" "I! I! Me! Me! I did, teacher!" came the shrill replies from scores of little throats. But one little boy was silent. Little Johnny Jones, for it was he, sat silent. He had had no turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner. Seeing him, the kind teacher called him to her desk. " Poor little Johnny!" she said, " And so you had no turkey?" " Naw," was his reply, ,; nuthin' but two ducks, a goose, an' a suckling pig roasted!"
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 945, 14 September 1901, Page 3
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