Show A 4 carlt christmas ps giuin g A young married man living on a fashionable street who wanted to make himself of acme use in domestic affairs bought a live turkey for the family christma Christ maa dinner and undertook to chop off its head bead As the weather was cold instead of killing the turkey out of do doors ho he t took ook it into the kitchen aud and with block and hatchet heroically decapitated decapitate A it il the whole household had been summoned to witness his skill AM as an executioner no sooner was it its a h bead ead 0 off ff than the decapitated turkey gave ch chasa to members of the family out of the tha kitchen into the dining room and up on the table and into the sitting room and into the parlor and onto the furniture and against the curtains and out into the hall where in an exhausting effort to climb the front stairs it yielded to the inevitable turned over on its back gave a few last protesting kicks and died but there a drop ot of blood left in that birds birda body it had bled copi copiously bously and had literally painted the tha lower part of the house and a good portion of the furniture and the tha carpets and the curtains and the wall paper a genuine turkey red that young married man has a long life before him and a lovable wife to share it with him but she has now this terror hari hanging ging over him cojohn john 1 eha ahe said if ever you yon again do such a thing as to cut off the head of a alive live turkey in the house ill nini look for a more sensible man when I 1 marry a gain again saratoga cor now new york sun |