A CHANCE SHOT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9430, 2 January 1909, Page 5

A CHANCE SHOT.

r -*-7 To the /turkey that was tame epicures the world over prefer the turkey that was wild. . However, clergymen are! noV fcoriously not epicurean in their tastes, and a - certain Methodist- preacher in Baltimore had once definitely expressed a preference for the domestic bird. Accordingly, when, one day last winter, he accepted an invitation to dme with a member of his congregation, that memher, in ordering the dinner of the coloured servant, laid stress upon this "Now Tem«mher, Ezekiel," he com-' manded, " Doctor fourthly likes domestic turkey. You will therefore dief continue your usual practice, and get not a wild but a tame one. "Yassir," nodded thq darky. . "Understand?" repeated the host-to-be. "A domestic turkey.". . A«-ain : the negro assented, and, thoiieh the family funds were at a low ebb, the dinner of his providing proved most elaborate. How so little teoney. went so far. was a mystery— until the boat began to carve the turkey. Then a thimbleful of shot rolled out upon the platter. _ v . " Ezekiel, said the host, severely, "I thoueht I told you to get a domesr said Ezekieb "That there's a domestic turkey. Ah knows it " '■■.'•■'" '.•'•'.' "But," •obs ec *®d the host, "look at the shot in H." 'V-.. ,_-■■ ■•.■■"■■'.- Ezekiel grinned sheepishly, " Yafisir," he stammered. " Ah-r-Ah sees 'em, sir; but them thar shot wasn't meant feT the turkey, sir— they was meant fer me!"