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Show ,.r. " DEAR C1T1LUREN ; In a few days J am sure you will all be very, very happy, for yiu will have a vacation from school and a fine turkey dinner. I he story of Thanksgiving day is known to all of you. I hope, so today to-day I want to tell of a turkey and ' his very, very odd adventures. I hope you will all enjoy the story as well as you do your vacation vaca-tion and the dinner. But whether you like it or not, I do hope you wiil have a very, very happy ,i Thanksgiving day. YOUR STORY LADY. Ey GEORGENE FAULKNER. fCr9fJ52 XC'E ' upon a tiiup "Jv.Tr" 'xf Uiero lived in a : yjj.'t 'V h3l"-vu,'1 a f"' rr jjkl fjj lurlicy who wiih so' fr-V ' trol,s and dkugrec- n. r-bxsZvlA ",,l'f ",at cvory "" Y' KjLCM (1'slik'''1 him. lie r c1.yf n,an any of I he nriicr iurl:c.vs thai. 1. f,.it hf? v;a the king, aii'l In- w.inhl rn.,h at thpm and rail. "1 ui r ri. I n it rr, ct u of my ivaj turr-rr. turr-rr. Mur it." and all thf nihcr turkeys were afraid ..f lilm that ih-y would han ihr-ir iai fcathiTH and run as fast ns -'li".1 ' '.nid ii '- fnil of his way. j l'. iy day Ik- n-w more and more Ini poiiant and si-nldid and KorrrifJ at all In :lr- haniyard until they wore all tlmd of 1 1 1 u . ' iiif mornini; I in- farmer's lilth bov raniM (n;t !o ficd Hi" rhi'ikmis. Mr- was a ll'tlr Im;. and hr had iifvr ln-for liw-n . 'mi all nkirir. Tin' I. n rii.v a rd iir-oplii wnl fr,me( him kindly and (Ik- rooslin- rnlli'd out, , ( Vi'-'.!i fl'H.dlf doo. c iu" i;lad tn nee ' -in 'hi no !" I'll! th" nionirnt th" tnrki-v rt,rh saw Ih" !ill" hoy h. iit"ln-d at him and h"t,'.'in lo 1 ;d' liirn "ii I h" l"t-i. ' Wh"n lh" hoy hail f."ni" thr- tinkr-y cam'1 1 ttinMjn hack lo Ihi- ha ni n ' fl lik" a "on ' .pi.iinK h'lo and h" H.-olil.il. "Ciohhl", i my wiy," salil III" lurki-y. "1 do nol "ii ro Hh"lh"l- lh" hoy ""in"-. b:l"U m nol. Wn haw- III" food," and Mi" I nrki'.v I n-!-n n lo rhk 1 1 1 1 I h" fund from Hi" n round. "Ills'-' s. hl.a. hl'.-aal tin- III .."orii, "I iid yon "V"i- si.t aii.wni" with snieli had nianni'i'..." y Vr jLtL wi hc?Xx ryc fhtfiu fKSw I ha' ir$Jt L,- M - The turkey looked so terrible that (he poor little hoy dropped the dish of food and ran screening toward the house, with the bio turkey running after him, pecking at his red stockings. Knlihlr, Kohhln. Xiirh Irouhl", 1 1 onhl" nhl" I". I hiiln iwl rwl "d.M "ijii"k. iimii-k, ijiiai-k. iilin-k, iilin-k, Hlaok," naid th" flnikri. "Will the h" coin" liii"k'.' iiiaoU. (mo-k. (ini"k !" "'I'll rr rr. I uir rr, I d'.n'l car" v. hat .win my. ;! out of my iwiy, I say, K,-l mil of Ill" turkey I, sohhlei! his hreakfaxt. mid Mien as all the harnynid ieoil n- I limed lo scold hlin he divided to "o invny from Ihem and he liiiied on a loin; walk. 4 As he enine near I he house he saw the farmer wllll his llllle hoy. "(Ill, Is lhal. the Inrkey lhal scared yen hy ihvUihk lit onr lesV well, never niin, , u, ,,, not Ion:; lo live. II,' is onr 'h nks-i, 1,, till key and soon on will he feeklin; at t,u h'KK." The eornslalks had 1 i enl and slacked lip In hniR rows and hetneen them hlnu the irrmmd were Idi: oranpe pumpkins lix- lnp like hie ornn.ee halls. The tnrkey csss , strvittins nlone. siiappin.c up lnte gras- j lieiwrs and hues, when suddenly he fond I himself risln against a creat oranec r1 kin. . ' "Ttirr-rr-rr. set out of my way, I M.T- t pet ont of my way. 'l'urr-rr-rr." ' Hut I he puinpUln could only He sit" ln the sunshine. j "Kvery one ln the haniyard U afmid tne." hraeeiNl the turkey. "Even the hou? j people nre afraid, and I made a liti tx'-' j run this inornlne. so you had better ti j heed and eel out of my way In-fore I tun'" on. Turr-rr rr." i And tin- turkey cave a savnee peck the pumpkin, hut he only cvt his mouth fill' of somothins soft which he did not like : nil. and the pumpkin was ins sl111 1,1 his ' I ailiway. ' "Cel out of my way or I will push " out of the way." scolded the turkey. "' I" a terrible race he tlew at the pumpkin, b"' his foot slipped on the sm.x'lh shies of "''', pumpkin, and he lest Ids balance and j n -.""aw hi e in the dust in a most imcii- niiied manner. 4 4 4 "Tn rr rr rr. you threw me this said (he turkev. "hut yen wait until le.ei asaln. 1 will make on set out of U j way." Nol w-ry lone a for that the turkey iiM meet the puiepkln. but Ids scolding ' i rm tins dis weie past, for they mot lvl' the Thnnskclvint: table. The tuikey "i roasied brown and l.inc ukui a hi l,'sU'r This time the turkey Oollld not SvM. (iohble. Kobhle. i;obble. set out of my to the pumpkin, but I he people f""1, "uobble. cobble" them both up. n,l ?''" thev were hod ' ont of lb" way." And now the nninWMu ihn''''r , Is ended, w hi . Ibis (nrkc.i Isle is f '' also. |