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Show Meant For the Minister. A popular- minister in Fifeshire, in the good old times, used at Christmas to be inundated with hampers filled with good things. On one occasion an enormous enor-mous turkey was 6ent to him by the thoughtful kindness of a neighboring fanner, but as the minister's family had already provided for the Christmas dinner din-ner the bird was sent to the market and sold. A passerby, seeing this fine specimen of poultry, said, "What a splendid turkey! tur-key! Just the thing for the minister's Christmas, dinner!" To the minister it was again sent. The provident wife 6ent it again to the market and sold it again for a handsome hand-some sum. Another friend, similarly struck with the splendid proportions of the turkey, purchased it and Bent it to the minister. minis-ter. The good woman, not wishing to fly in the face of Providence, said at last: "It is clear that the Lord means us to have this turkey," and with the approbation appro-bation of the family it formed part of the Christmas dinner, --Youth'i Com. p anion |