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Show DADDY5 EVENING FAIRYTALE 6y msx GRAHAM BONNER (Aa AUTHOR SPRING TURKEYS. "Hello, my children." said Father 'Turkey, one bright spring (lav. "llcllo. dad." said the little turkeys. "You're spring turkeys, aren't you?" asked their father. "I suppose we are," said one of ' the turkeys. "It's fine to be. any sort of a turkey in this nice world where we get such good things to eat." "You must he careful not to get ' "Don't Get Your J'our feet wet. Feet Wet." .von -know," said Father Turkey, les," said the little turkeys, "mother "moth-er was telling us to be very 'careful nt to get our feet wet for the first four weeks of our lives, for if we do e will never be strong or well turkeys, tur-keys, and if we're careful well, we will be strong and well turkeys." The little turkey drew a long breath, for i,e '""1 said all that without stopping. stop-ping. Father Turkey laughed and said: "Well, anyway, you know just what you should do. Your mother teaches you well." "Why did you ask us if we were spring turkeys, dad?" asked the little turkeys. "Didn't you know whether we were or not?" "Yes. I knew," said their father, "but I wondered if you bad heard of the autumn and of Thanksgiving." "Xo, mother hasn't told us about Thanksgiving," said the little . turkeys. "Is Thanksgiving something to eat, daddy?" "Xo," gobbled Father Turkey, "Thanksgiving is something which eats us. That is we are .supposed to be good food for Thanksgiving and for Christmas, too." "We are going to be eaten?" asked the little turkeys, in frightened voices. "Cheer up, little turkeys," said Father Fa-ther Turkey. "It sounds quite dreadful dread-ful to you now, but it won't when I explain it to you. And it is best for me to explain it to you than for some one else who doesn't know and understand under-stand the whole thing. ; "You see," said Father. Turkey, "Thanksgiving day is a day when they give thanks for all the fine things they have in this world. When some people, came over to this country years and. years ago they set aside a day upon which to give thanks for their safe arrival ar-rival in this land. "Well, it's a day which is kept year after year after year, and in order td celebrate it in great style they have turkeys to eat. It's a great honor they pay us. And they also have turkeys for Christmas which is a day still greater than Thanksgiving day. "And more than the compliment that they pay us is the fact that we're fed so well and given so much to eat before be-fore Thanksgiving day that we never have to hunt for our food; we are given all the goodies we want, and we are made fat in the most delightful fashion. "To be sure, all of us aren't eaten, hut it doesn't matter whether we are or not, for we don't know it when we are, and we do know all about the delightful de-lightful days beforehand, when we eat and eat and eat and gobble. and gobble and gobble. "When your mother , was looking after you I kept watch all the time to see that no harm came . to you. , I warned her whenever danger was near. . . , "I will teach you how to roost in the trt-es, and I will ter.eh you bow to put your heads under your wings. "Hut probably your mother has al ready taught you these two things. So 1 will just have a good time with you and chat w i t h you and gobble with you." "You're a fine father," said the little turkeys. "Hut you can still call yourselves your-selves spring turkeys," tur-keys," said their father, "because it is still spring. - "v".-. .A and it will be a You,re a Fine long time before Father." I 5 Thanksgiving day, ; Bud the following holiday. Christmas, I : and the snow and the cold weather. "Yes, you're spring turkeys, you're father's own nice spring turkeys, and j it will only be one more week before J you can walk wherever you want, for i you will be four weeks old. and after the first four weeks little turkeys don't : have to be so careful." ' :t And the spring turkeys gobbled and J said that life sounded and seemed very 1 : pleasant |