North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-13

We intend not to allude to the
difficulties between Greece and Turkey,
though experience teaches us recently that
turkey and grease are very closely allied at
our home table-.tatness was no name for
the excellent one which our friend Jack
Smith of fredericksburg brought US for
Christmas. Not large, but immensely
delicious. "Jack" also Aanked the turkey
with several grouse or prairie chickens,
which were-well-not so devilish fat,
but plump enough to be palatable to those
eastern fellows, who think mestern pro-
auctions in natural history must,of course,
be superior to those raised or found in
their own immediate vicinity. We, 'out
west," sometimes credit eastern produc-
tons linen and women included) for more
than they're worth! Men and women
frequently credit "outsiders' higher than
they inert, and when the credit gets
powerful strong," Opponents and divor-
ces, and tophet to pay, cnsue. But this
moralizing on q turkey text is all wrong.
Let those who "hanker for' prairie chick
ems after Oct. LIST, eat all they can find
AS soon as able to fly right well, they do
so much of it, that there is no juice in
them. Partridge pheasant and quail arc
not fy-ists nor are they much on the
walk; hence, their meat approaches near
er the lazy, domestic delicacy, known as
"dung- hill forthwith, we beg to say
the Shangai, Burmah Pootra, and other
horse-beef chickens left out. Spare US
the dental dissection of one of those
burlesques of the barn-yard. But, to the
question: BURGESS, of out west, sent us
monster gobbler for New Years day; we
appreciated it editorially and digestively.
Twas the biggest thing out at that time,
but now we are overwhelmed. On the
morning of Thursday last, Mr.. Ed.
Douglas of the M. U. Y. handed us
box marked "Sl,75 paid" and in that box
was mammoth Meleagris galloparo (see
Webster on this suljcct) weighing &c
pounds and . ounces Reader, what do
you think of that. A ,cild Turkey killed
near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, by Dec. IRISH,
the travelling agent and partner of Park
bursts & Thompsons Concert troupe, and
forwarded by that excellent gentleman to
the A. p. Il. of this oflice-(J. ii. A. still
absent). Think of the character Of the
turkey and his birth place, wild, and in
Iowa, Doc. IRISH the shoot-ist-hcnce
twas an Irish turkey--all them 'uns is
Widths immense weight! An elegant
complimentary letter came with the fat
young monarch Of the Mt. Pleasant woods,
and also few chaste poetic lines from the
deceased to those who would "gobble''
him, but the lines are mislaid or worn out
by much reading to parties who know our
donor, and his kindness of heart.
While upon this subject, and to prove
we are not alone in attempting to pay for
pleasant remembrances by the use of
pleasant words, we quote below the closing
portion of long notice Of thanks, similar
in kind, addressed by the democratic cdi-
tor Of the Lyons Adrocate to thoughtful
bachelor friend of his. 1t seems "Mar-
quis" accompanied his Christmas gift with
a basket of oysters. Now hear the
AdrOcdte man:
I'VE now promise and assert, that III
our brave Marquis shall, during the COM
ing year, las he may,) invade, either by
stratagcm or otherwise, the renowned
castle wherein any fair enamorado is con-
fined. and persuade her, through his win
ming ways, to change her lonely lot for
that of superintendent of repairs in bis
house, and upon his wardrobe, we wiH not
forget our Christmas turkey, but see that
it be duplicated, together with the dressing
so suitable for such an occasion.
We divided our Irish lump Of sweet
savors with several neighbers, and there
has been no meat bought since in that social
precinct. Well, "honest and true as the
children say, that was the all-firedest
latest, tenderest cuss of the sort that ever
anchored in our Sanctum. Keep on
shooting, Doc