| Show TAUGHT A NEW WAY A trick in killing turkeys that WM not altogether A young couple from chicago borrowed a farm for a week not long ago some friends who own a little place up in wisconsin were going away for a visit and they proposed that the young couple should look up their flat bring their servant with them and enjoy the snap of an early winter moth in the country they went they know more now than they did then the owner of the farm says the chicago times stayed for a day and showed them about and the departing host showed his successor a very tricky way of killing a turkey instead of chopping its head off or wringing it in the old way he took it by the feet and snapped its head lightly against a stone as though it had been a whip the spinal column was neatly broken without any of the struggles and agonies usually attendant upon the death of a fowl the farmer forgot and locked up all his chickens taking the key with him only one turkey gobbler was left at large that night the city man took him by the feet and snapped his head against a stone then he took him to the cook and told her to give him a dry pluck and let him lie in the icebox until morning the next morning screams of terror awoke the visitors they sprang out of bed and ran into the hall the cook praying to all the saints was stumbling up the stairs stalking majestically after her came the ghost of the gobbler without a feather on him he had only been stunned and when the ccok lifted the icebox lid in the morning he had arisen in his nakedness and gobbled in her face |
