Show I i 0 BALLAD OF THE WISE TURKEY Ordered Hit Life to His Days Were Long In the Land I Tel Im the unmc old turkey J Of somo years eau and I IOIHPBH todny the plumage gay And eke the mnnncr shy Once I Was vnln nnd haughty Same as other bird I know I j Or did tlioy nil have passed tho board Ah years and years ago l l 1a My form In days ago It was A dream of bliss so said Tho master of tho poulterers Tho dream you see hns lied For now I mn a rack of bones My wattles they mo pale And why this chartgo theres method In The eubjttct of my tain fV 1r rl tu h 11 t I watched the market and I kept Close tabs upon the list When turkey meat was low In price No meal I ever missed But when the price uplifted why 1 took to gravel stones Until 1 grow attenuate A walking rack of bones 1 Q 2 r t 1 had some haughty friends alas aM wHnndtl seYlssuh They took to glutton ways and now Theros nothing left to show They ever trod tho barnyard ah Theyre gathered to tho hosts Of things that wore alack but now Theyre phantom forms and ghosts t t > v i Twas In the year of 69 A goose sagacious told To me the points I now relate lie then was forty old lie practiced what he preached alasl But Quito forgot this year He fattened up und now hes passed Forgive this falling tear Horace Seymour Keller |