Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-02-18

thy example was followed by another,and
so on until you might have witnessed the
unusual aud laughter provoking specta.
Gle Of six two~legged animals, adorned
with neither hair nor feathers, walking
and staggering about, as il they were
afraid Of themselves ard Of each other -
You would have said that they never felt
so funny in all their lives; that they were
in Il perfect state Of bewildermeuL, not
knowing how to account for their odd an.
pearance; that they had been in trance
I til their feathers had rolted off, and that
ION recovering their consciousness, hiewas
a new and strange thing to them, and
| they could not credit their senses. Poor,
bevildered SHINING, misguided turkeys
The same urchin who had run to in
form his mother that the turkeys were
dead, now Precipitated himself into the
kitchen to tell her that 'they had come
TO life OgmnW Mrs. Parsons ran out as
before; but she was more surprised than
ever. She declared il was a miracle. -
! Who ever heard Of dead turkeys walking
before? The miracle OF the man who
took up his feather bet and walked, wasn't
more strange than that six dead turkeys
! should arise and walk wMom their feathe
ers. You would have said Mrs. Parsons
was as bewlldered as the turkeys.
Matters stood thus when Mr.. Parsons
returned. Judge Of his surprise, when b.
beheld his fine turkeys, sad and crest fall
len, travelling about as baked as SO many
eeiE
"Nhat on 'arlh does this mean ~ he
DEMANDED;
"O J. sobbed Mrs. Parsons, cts the
s'rangest thing ! never heard of the like
never Ihe turkeys all died
D'ed
es-ahd plcked en-"
Died and you picked EN- J! exclaimed
PARSONS angriy. 80, you good for moth,
ing
1t was The first unkind word Parsons
had ever spoken 20 his wife, and she iclt
IT,
~ . y! She cried weeping bitterly.
70 .! o." echoed Parsons through
hIS teeth as he looked first at his wife
then At his turkeys.
parsons !,
L on ioo.'
! 4I Otute replied the wretched wo,
man, able to bea! no more; and she sHelled
up before forsons as the turkeys had oiIen
done heiore stripped OF their feathers - -
MT. solomon Parsons, am not fool -
o4 plckea my hne turEeys-you
""H4 /" w., ! I't! a.. Y 'ea'ncr i
- Of" me turkeys ! ! picked my tur'
keys S,I.[,.,, because 5 'ney were were ii, deadT
ney were not u'ad / exclaimed Far'
sons.
Do "a, "e"'' ID '''el ne'FIngS' orleo Mrs'
Observation-Disclosures, ",TG.,S' nZ.a,, ,-,,
- ou urea 'ooI,as 'old you shouted
H.I"ns, ..II., me >, iuiheyS were drunk ,,
Drunk, yes thundered Parsons :"Ior
E"IG tln t'"' oo'u 'I'o' huu Oeeh soo""o
~ W,''SNey. 60,
,Il "a" q. 'J,'s. w." EayI en- 'Ii"' corn
CanlI - ,dsa f,,o ~, W
80 49, t,t'r ,o.NsSS
liz G,iI ,'IT'S " ,;c ~ " ,.L,'eu ne 'e'reu tll"O
80, ',t''.', " ,,0 i'''!. soon oe III worse
oo'''1'''T'i ''i'''' 'ue 'UIh,ls, ne ana not
sII.u5 '!e., an" d, ne I1.t 'hal the oEigih>
d, I"u'v w was nus ne Fe'oiiy made endeav'
o's :" oi,'r uv5 =, col'sPIa'Ioh' CON
,,I ToH ,li,' ! g, cry =, =, '"iu .i ne,
r.,, WI. S''" sue lou called ne
W Iool oo gave 'ne turkeys that corn =
GU 9i } S"u-y3u "rG q OrnIe.,
ar l N"o" u, lepi'd Parsons, humbly.
90, P','u ,.;., Sui,.y 20 1no GharGe' am lnlIy
Jo,.s.,i ..,,CJ'' .h"t "'n a brute m more
~ ''Iu amman 'h"h these turkeys,
f,"',;onas. 'ai,o, ',Sn a. lucy 0'e' out ask your
'o,ES ~ e,'esS' -.'i, -, -,
.it, a.. >I,Is' JG., ,, sIgI1I 'he poor woman,
co S'RR b "''''' s"'" i"F'on',
~
wear -''' '0'
~ on rorpiv, me2o
"Yes.n
And ;bot excoedin,Iv ,,o;.
embraced to Tho groo; rr,;i,',C'.u c ,I a'.
featherless TURKEYS that boJ 5o vi vac n,,S s'I