Show go bif christmas in the barnyard by MARY BONNER copyright 1819 1919 by br union li Is coming crowed mr rooster booster I 1 christmas Is 13 coming gobbled mr tur key dont be too happy about itt it for you may be eaten mr turkey bald miss lien and then slie she clucked christmas Is coining 11 gobble gobble gobble said mr turkey you be so sure that you wout wont be eaten yourself 11 well its the best time of tile the year to be eaten its an honor what lie ie always raid paid gobbled mi aft turkey I 1 please miss ilen hen try to be original I 1 may try to be many thing clucked misa mla lien ilen but it la Is impola sible bible for me to try to be original why mr anikey im key who nho waa much puzzled because I 1 dont know what it Is to be original I 1 don dont t know what t the lo 10 word meana how can I 1 be g it if I 1 don dont t eien een know what chat hat ahat son some 0 thing Is I 1 cant try to be a thing I 1 dont know an thing about you could ak what ahot it ine menus Fins youa you inquired mr air tinkey are you too proud for thata that mom I 1 I 1 N not 0 t too proud ald mid t mlis hen hut bilt I 1 don t hike to h a e them handed to we lue without the fisk ask ing it makes me line appear so supe arlor absurd Ab suid sold cald mr luikey I 1 well if aou ou think so then ayou you may be eat sold said miss bliss hen 1 I en M mr r tu burky rady suppose I 1 will have to swallow mi pride or in su per bority and be friendly at this time of the yes ye I 1 will actually ask jou what dots docs it mean to be original 1 I will tell sou said mi turkey I 1 but first of all let me say that you cannot swallow sour pride not noi sour superiority thoe tho e are not things to eat you may rl rise ie above your pride but it Is impossible to si swallow allo it now non mr turkey I 1 ma ina be only a poor hen but 1 I know a few feis things it 2 a saying and a perfectly good saying when nhen I 1 speak of swaIl swallowing jiIng mv pride bilde enrione Ee rione knows no om P chew it and swallow it actually besides as fat fai its as that Is concerned I 1 might say to ou that it was arts not coi to talk about rising abone aboe your your pride its as though pride were the ground and one took a trip in an airplane above it let Us not quarrel sold said mr turkey for the joyous christmas season to fast approaching yes tea ed bliss hen and I 1 was waa fast approaching victory in that argument mr air turkey pretended he epard oh by the way he said after a nio moments ments pause igou jou wanted me to tell you what it meant to be original tea leq 11 ducked clucked miss hen while rt a smile passed oner oer her hen hell face well continued mr turkey when a creature is original and says orl original ginal things it means he is saving things lie he has thought up himself and haen t copied from someone else A person who has original ideas fill all ills his own A crea ture who says original says no other creature sans 11 I 1 you copied me when iou laid it was art an honor to M b eaten tol nt at that was m as what hat I 1 have always everyone should said Q G I 1 v e me pres I 1 dont be so ants fussy assy ussy ar ir gobbler said miss ilen hen we anit all be original ns as aou ou call it IL despies words art are find and we all have use tile the same ones to he understood so ii difference does doe it ronke make hov boy we ve put them together I 1 mr 11 lurkey ni walked about as though some nome creatures reilly haldny enough to bother taking to but soon a great nole was herd N the pigs were rill nil and grunting J it Is the time of the y yjih r cerione should pe glee tw nui Dresen tg squealed pinky pig i i everyone should give pae prep ants that Is what hat carl jmaev healas I 1 said porky rig pig f b they all gho gh hern e to nse me said brother bacon brou pigs dont know the spirit of Chist christmas mas giving you dont know it joir self A said bald miss ham I 1 christee Chrls Christ troa me if Is coming ru all ready for presents present beltle but Bul the tle ocher agnews aal iia sighed arid shook weir their heads rigs pigs don t eeb en foget the yar are pigs during christma Ch eaon Pt w |