The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-10-02
SENSITIVE TURKEY.
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The FnEa Lake nan whose Fowl Was
af and His Story Iikeuiae
.'Yes said General Manager Steb-
bins "a response to an inquiry. this
oughi be tolerable good country
for poultry around here, but never
saw ~ hereabout to brag OF. This
end o The lake doesn't seem to agree
with Irultry as we'll as tile other end.
and tiy'd call turkey that weighed
forty pounds here and stood four feet
high big one But having seen
what laye seen over in the town of
Bento Yates county, l don't call
TURKEY like that much of one
used % haye a fancy fruit and poultry
farm over there few years ago, and
got some turkey eggs from the west to
experiment with The father of the
eggs WIS Wild turkey and the mo
tlerol them high stepping bronze
hen. only had half dozen of the
eggs, eid looking oack at them now,
believe That the essence ofsthe whole
six wus IN some way stored up in one,
for only one hatclled out. That one
was etugh. At the age of three
plo1tst 7tv = my other young tul'-
Keys, and prize ones at that, We're still
creeping around IN charge of their
mothers. this particular turkey evict-
ed his mother and all the other big
turkeys from their inclosure, and was
surprising the community by eating
corn from the bottom of an apple bar
/ rel. while he stood on the ground out
side. II wasn't long before he could
stand at my side and eat corn off the
/ top of my head with ease, and don't
fall great deal short of six feet.
The turkey kept on getting taller
| and Snrnadin0 ntli until 7 not 10 txrnr1-
dering whether he wasn't cross some
| way between an ostrich aud giraffe,
| for he put in mind of both of them
| By the time he got so he could stand
at the side of the barn and pick grass
hoppers off the hay through the NOW
window l couldn't bring myself but to
think that he must have reached his
growth. sure, but he kept on reaching
up and spreading out. He got so final
| ~ that he kinder o run things OH the
! / farm to suit himself, but he was so in
telligent aud gentlemanly that hat
ed to take him III hand and curb him,
for he was as high spirited US he was
tall. But finally had to give him
set back.
Il had planted some extraordinary
fine melons that l was particularly
anxious to raise some specimens of,
and one day, about the time they were
getting ripe,I discovery handsome
bronze hen turkey, that had let do
pretty much as she pleased on the
| place, picking away at one of the
melons. had her shut up in pen
at once, but having occasion to go
and look at her the next day, thereI
found one of the melons in her pen,
and She dining off it with great rel
ish. How that melon could have got
| I lY,t 60.
was no one on the place who would
dare to put it there kept watch,
and was rewarded by seeing my mann
moth gobbler stride over in the melon
patch, break off two of the incest
melons. sock one of his long spurs in
one and the other spur III the other.
and fly with both melons to the hens
cage and drop. them into her This
was gallant, of course, but IL didn't
suit me.
"'John,, l says to my man. we
must break that big turkeys spirit.
Hitch hFm TO the pillow tomorrow,
and break up that new field with him.
My man did SO, and the turkey
cut him 10 the heart. That was just
what wanted, and I hoped he would
take the hint. But, either because he
was mad and determined on revenge,
or out of the kindness of his heart,
caught him in another affair that
made him a subject for still severer
discipline.
81 had graft of particularly choice
apples, entirely new, and especially
cared for and watched. Some preco-
cious small boys in the vicinity had
cast longing glances at these apples.
but the fruit was in the very top Of
high tree, and the orchard was divided
from the nearest approach of the boys
by deep pond twenty feet wide. !
thought those apples were safe
enough, but l hadn't taken my turkey
into account. Seeing the boys stand
ing on the far bank of the pond one
day, gazing with watering mouths at
the luscious fruit, the turkey kindly
| picked those apples from off the top of
the tree and reached them across the
pond on the end of his bill to the de-
lighted boys. When discovered the
situation the last apple had been pick
ed off and handed over. Then Or
dered my men TO put the turkey on
the horse power and make him run
the farm machinery for day or two.
could see plainly that this treadnill
work humiliated the proud bird to the
utmost, and although | was sorry.
| nad TO have discipline on tile tarm.
But the turkey only ran the mill
one day. The next morning when
went in the barn almost tainted
away. for there. hanging from his
neck by rope which had been left
around rafter in the roof of the
barn, was my splendid turkey, stone
dead He had had TO draw his legs
up almost to his breast to clear them
from the floor, SO that he could sue
coed in his rash ;est. He lad com
mitted suicide rather than submit to
what he regarded as degrading labor
The thought that my we'll meant dis
cipline had driven the noble bird to
his death made il unpleasant for me to
run the farm any longer. SO gave it
up. n-Hammondsport IN. W Letter
to NeV York Sun.
Danced the Bottom Ont of Their Boat.