The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-21

| ness, of course / get no end of turkeys from
| Norfolk, and the best and primest come from
ny ola acquahlp1ta9ace h1t wurzeIi d oi WestrePp''
and at Christmas time, especially, we
have generally a good many going in
She house. Wurzel does not know my coun-
| try address; but the card you have picked
| up happened to be tied TO the leg of a very fine
| bird that came in after the great consignment
| forgotten, suppose, beforehand that reached
my shop only yesterday. He was such a splen-
did one, that thought would bring him down
and eat him at home. That's my story; aud,
unless some OF you are in the trade too, what
you, know about Westrepps aud its turkeys
can't conceive. But when you came IN and
talked of them, | thought you must have found
me out somehow, and had come to ask me for a
Christmas turkey; aud although, of course | do
no business in the country, yet, as / said, like
TO- be neighborly; and have it you shall, even
after all that is done. Only promise that you
Will tell to no one what | have told to YOU or
Mrs. Bobsby will force me to give up this
house. and move oil some where else, bag and
baggage
The explanation sounded honest and plausible.
and Bobsby clinched conviction by producing
note from Old Wurzel, which he happened
we could we proceeded to apologize; Quilter
pointing 1t out, with elaborate and elegant
mnuteness, how the circumstantal evidence in
the case was absolutely irresistible, and that it
was only by courtesy that legal mind could let
il be Outweighed, even by the positive proofs
which Bobsby had advanced on the other side.
AT that instant ring resounded through the
little house, and the maid brought in a letter,
aging 1t had been brought down from town,
and was marked immediate.
Queer coincidence" said Bobsby; "here is
another note from Wurzel, enclosed from my
shop. II may perhaps interest you, rs you know
him."
He read it and then handed it to me. 1t ran
thus:--
Dear Sir:-I find that my man has stupidity
sent turkey to your address which intended
for nephew OF mine. As should be sorry that
he was disappointed, would you oolige me by
passing it in to him at once; or, should you
already have disposed of it, let him have the
very best you can supply in its place. His
address is John Brown, Victoria Villas" ETC.
etc.
$50, now, gentlemen, hope your minds are
quite satisfied and, after reading that, your
conscionces, think, may be easy, when offer
you the very Identical bird.n
Humihated aS ! felt at my precipitate inlus-
| tice, could hardly decline, more especially as
| Doth 0uiter and Palette declared at once with
marvellous unanmity, that nothing could be
more honorable than Mr.. Bobsby's behavior
| and that the only way l could possibly atone
an involuntary wrong was by accepting the
| turkey In the spirit in which it was offered
| So | did accept, and very capital dinner
| we made Of it. TO my wife, l think, it was
| tainted by the drTteTe pensee that it might
| bridge the gulf that had hitherto been fixed
| between her and her vulgar and dressy neigh
| Dor. She need not have troubled herselfOn that
| score. Henceforth the repulsion seemed to be
on Mrs. Bobsbys side; and at next tern
| Bobsby's little house wa, to let Doubtless his
wife had learned that we were privy to the
fatal secret, and so took the precauton of car
rying it away to hide it elsewhere. And, after
ALL no friendship with the Bobsbys followed on
the episode of our Christmas turkey.