Show thanksgiving turkey how irow well would the turkeys of this country feel now if they were of tile breed of the geese me that saved the ca in rome inome when the gaul brennus ennus besic besieged q oed the proud citadel by their vigilant cackling I but buta a few days and their innocent necks will be wrung their beautiful plumage will be torn from their fat bodies by ruthless hand their tender bones bone s and sinews will bo be boiling in the hospitable pot of our friends who cannot deny themselves the pleasure to expose our teeth to endless excruciation and our stomachs to incurable dyspepsia P c ia athen but then we will not sorrow we will doleful dolefully but gratefully submit dolefully lr to the ordeal ordea we shall gnaw the bones that friendship tenders us we shall even swallow the feathers that our friends deft hands bands could not pluck from the integument of the national fowl wo shall rinse it all down with rith a gravy composed of innumerable condiments and u unnamable nn amable ingredients and when the agony is over we shall praise our fate if we are left alive and we shall appreciate it as a day ot of thanksgiving |