The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-11-29


70 his unhappy fate. but she could not do
It. Shc was very sorry for tho turkey.
She said nothing 10 her mother about her
unhsppiness. She was unselnsh enough
not TO wish hor mother TO be worried aboit
anything. Ethel had noticed that she
looked younger and happier since she had
heard from her brother. She went about
hor work singing, and hcr face was bright
with expectant happiness; and she did not
haye long to walt, for tho visitor came
several days before he was expected
He was big man, with merry, gray
eyes, brown beard, aud voico that had
ring of kindness. Ho brought dog with
him, hugo mastif, Of which he was very
fond. Mr.. Carroll took up his abode In the
cottage as II no belonged there, and the
dog, who was named Jupiter, was chained
out on tho little dried patch Of lawn over
which the sultan had roigned alone. The
dog and turkey soon struck up Q friend
ship. and ate together out Of ono dish with
perfect good fellowship.
Tho Yokohama unclo and his dog had
not been long at the cottage when the
preparations for the Thanksgiving feast
were begun. Mrs. Sequin said the time
had como for tho turkey TO DO killed. As
she was altogether too soft-hearted wo-
man TO perform this operation herself and
as sho was unwilling to ask hor guest to do
1t, she told Ethel to request their butcher
TO send his boy to kill the turkey. Then
she went back into tho parlor TO talk to
her brother, and Ethel was left alone.
She put on her hat and cloak very slow
ly. Her heart was worry full and there
was great lump in her throat. It was
bad enough. and sad enough. to love old
Sultan without being compelled to give the
order Of the execution. She won't down
tho street at pace very unusual for
healthy child. Her feet seemed heavier
oven than her heart, and hor steps were
drcarily reluctant.
Her eyes were red and swollen when she
went into the butchers shop, and her voice
was unsteady. Everybody there was very
busy, for the approaching holiday had In
creased the butchers sales. There were
lot OF common looking fowls hanging up
about tho shop, but tho few feathers re-
naming on their wings wero gray, and II
was plain to be soon that none Of them had
ever locked like the gallant sultan. Ethel
priced one Of them, and the butcher said 1t
u
She had boon saving her pennies for nearly
year. and yet there was only sevcnty-fve
Co.'s In her tin savings bank That was
only half enough to buy q turkey and to
savo poor Sultan's life
Just at dusk tho butchers boy came up
the walk. Ethel saw him and her heart
sank at the sight. Sultan's hour had come
The boy had no sympathy for either the
girl or the turkey. He was very fat, as
butchers boys are won't to be, and no was
both vulgar and provoking. He had heard
Ethel offer her services at the shop, and
had boon exquisitely amused at her propo-
sition. Now he laughed and jeered at her.
She had had vague idea of beseeching
him to chloroform the turkey. to make
his visit as painless as possible, but she
gave up this impracticable idea ut once
She knew that it would be useless to make
any appeal for mercy to the butchers boy.
He would delight In plaguing her. He
would fairly revel in staying old Sultan be-
fore her eyes.
or course he had first to catch the fowl
Sultan was so tame and so well trained,
that he would come whom his nams was
called; but the boy knew nothing Of the
obu Brooe oaBhCity, uHu 10 ulu uOt Gull
him. Instead, he chased tho turkey about
the yard. The bird could not fly, for one
Of his wings had been clipped. but he
could run, and he gave tho boy o lively
chase. Sultan had at last forgotten his
dignity. The boy was too fat to be o good
runner, but he made the best time possible
to him, racing over the little lawn, around
the kennel, and over tho frozen flower
beds. Ethel could not watch the chase.
She had covered her eyes with her hands
and was sobbing violently. Around and
around won't tho turkey, and around and
around went the boy. And now the turkey
is cornered, ana now he is caughtl
All this while no one had noticed Jupi-
ter, who had been growing until his tones
were almost as deep and terrible rs the
roar of lion, and who had been jerking
away ut his heavy chain, in q mad attempt
to break 1t. The dog was powerful ami
NAL but the chain was too thick for even
his strength. He saw his friend, the tur-
key, chased all about the yard and captur-
cd, and the sight enragcd him. He made