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Show It THEGREAT SANDT0 WN TURKEY THEFT A Story of a Mean Man and a Mean Deed That Was Its Own Reward. Nonh Wumsklltlo was a mean inun one of thortt- mean people who hate to seo others prospcious, oven-though It does not Intorfoio with thorn at nil He lived lu Hanillowu .nnd ralsr-d turkeys, like everybody else, lie earned n lot of money, becniiKt be fill tened his turkeyH well. It wnH hie only genemiis deed, for he begrudged even the food that ho gavo himself, und as for others! Well, Deacon Van-dei Van-dei tassel onee said that Noah Wain skittle wus so mean that ho would walk three miles to borrow n match lather than use ono of his own to light IiIp fire In tho morning, Noah Wamsklffle did not like Don con VandertasHel nt all, and ho liked him oven less lifter he heard this So some days before Thanksgiving day, he went to a poor man In Sand town und said to him: "You know that wo will all have to ship our tin keys to-morrow. Now, you hnvo only CO und If you do not get u good price for them you will be hurd pressed for money this winter Woll, I know a way to mnko the prices higher for you. If you will go fo Deacon Vandertassel's place with misting and tuiiiliij;, fill Noah was nearly dead and only his gieat menu ness kept lilin going. At last, Keiutched und bruised and full or mud, weary uud suffering, be fell Into a deep miidbole. which, strangely enough, hint been avoided (level ly by poor but honest Hill, "Never mind," whispered HIM, helping help-ing him up, "we huv'o unived." Noah looked through the underbrush, under-brush, but he could see nothing ex-' ex-' cept a black mass or something lu tho darkness. "Those nre the barns," said Hill. ' Hen1, take Ibis saw and saw holes Into tho walls thero und I will creep irouud the other way aud scare tho lurkes so they will come out." Noah, mudder and meaner tbnn ever, worked hind and sawed big boles, out or which the turkeys scuttled. scut-tled. Then, us Hill scaled thorn up, off they flew Into the woods until the whole big flock hud vanished, As sooti ns the last one had gonn, poor but honest Hill oled Noah and said- "We must hurry back and wo must go the same wuj wo came" "Oh, dear, oh, dear, ' groanrd Noah, i "I See It All " He Moaned. mo tonight wo cuu cut. holes Into his turkey houses nnd let ntl his birds llv Into tho woods. Ho will bo quite tin-ablo tin-ablo to catch them again In tlmo for shipment nnd tho pcoplo In tho city will bo glad to pay you high prices for yours." - l(.v Tho poor man, whoso nnmo wns Illll I.cggo, mndo bolovo to agree with tho menu mnn. Hut really ho did not ngroo with him at all, for ho enmo of poor but honest parents, nnd wns very much llko them himself. So ho devised a cunning plan, Thnt night ho went to Noah's houso nnd said to him: "Lot us go to do this deed. Hut wo will have to go Into tho woods Just behind your house and work around throimh them for several sev-eral miles, so ns to approach tho deacon's dea-con's plncu through tho underbrush In tho back. It would nover do for us I to bo seen." i "Thnt Is a good Idea." snld Noah. "Hut I do not know' tho wny through ' tho woods." I "I will guide von," snld poor but honest Hill. "I fear, however, thut you will find It rough going, for wo cannot dnro to enrry n Inntorn" Ho took hold of Noah's arm u)t4-fT they went, up nnd down mid In nnd nut, through thick nnd thin nnd thorn und swamp, this way nnd thnt wny. i Hut ho followed, und once mora hj was dragged 'through miidholcs nnd I creeks nnd over stumps and rocks until his shins and nosu were skinned nnd every part of hi in was soro. 1 At last they emerged on a road and Liu a fow moments thoy were at Noah's No-ah's front gate nnd tho mean man hurried hur-ried to bed. Tho next morning ho could hardly got up, becnuso ho was so soro. Hut ho crawled out to feed his turkeys. When ho got to thu barnyard, his heart nearly stood still. There wns not u single, solitary turkey lu tho plnco. Ho stood with his mouth open, won-dorlug. won-dorlug. Then, slowly n terrible suspicion sus-picion entered his mind Ho limped ns fast ns ho could to tho back, und, Hiiro enough, thete ho found grout holes In tho walls of thu houses, "I seo It nil," ho moaned, sitting right down In the mud. "That vll-lulu vll-lulu took mo through tho woods nnd back to my own turkey houses," Ho vras unite right. When lxxir but honest Hill went by the house, carting his CO turkeys to tho town, Noah Wumsklttle shook his list out of thu window, but Hill Log-go Log-go only laughed, and so did every-isxly every-isxly olso in Kundlowu when thoy heard of It. |