The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-22
WORTH WOODS rURxEY RAFFLEs


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NorrHwoop. Nov 18-There will be moro
| Thanksgiving turkeys eaton In this neighbour
hood this year than heretofore In previous
years the turkey farmers took their stock to
| market at Utica and the smaller surrounding
towns, and tho people living up here either had
to harness their teams and 60 to town or 60
without the Thanksgiving bird.
/ As turkey is not eaten up this way very Of
| ten. and as It Is therefore the more eagerly
| sought on the day when every patriotic Amer
| can feels IL his duty to cat as much rs his APP
| petite will allow. the neiehbors OF tho turkey
| farmers mildly protested. They didn't mind go
| ing to town. but then they always had to pay
more than they considered right; and. besides,
there were the other expenses OF a trip to
town. such as candy for tho girls and boys.
peanuts. and the many other tempta-
| tions that farmer folks easily succunb to.
| The sharpshooters didn't use to mind
SO much because they could 60 to the turkey
shooting matches and at ten cents shot bag
all the turkeys they wanted. But ever since
| noted shot ruined tho man who set up the tur-
keys down Mt Prospect the sharp-eyed and
steady fingered boys from these parts are
rather shut out ut shooting matches. Tho
boys still delight to tell Of this crack shot. and
| how. when the owners Of the turkeys barred
him out after he had shot six tur-
keys in succession. no got angry. and.
Just to show what he couli do. offered
to bet IS that he could hit clothes line some
| distance down tho road. Nobody would take
| the bet but he fired The line was cut right
| in two and all the freshly washed clothes
| dropped into the mud, much to the amaze
ment and horror Of tho woman in the kitchen
window. This sharpshooter finds 1t difficult
to got in at any Of the matches nowadays.
| but some OF tho boys who are not so well
known slip in once in q whilo.
However. MS already said. the farmers had
| objected to seeing all the turkeys thnt had
fattened on the rich corn and buckwheat Of
this country going to gladden. the stomachs
Of residents Of other places Consequently.
the turkey farmers decided to give their
neighbors the chance to get tho birds
Very few farmers can afford to pay 81
for o turkey. but nearly all are willing to
risk q small amount on the chance OF getting
one. That is why they are so ready to 60 to
shooting matches But the turkey farmers
arc not 80 foolish as to set up their
birds for unerring marksmon. They
know that even II only the head was
visible at long range it would be good-by tur-
that way. 30 the turkeys haYe been put up at
rafles and the god Of fortune has been invoked
she lid IN tSe homes arRes
farmers. One by one the latter have invited
luck. These affairs have taken on much dig
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ent was invited to one Of these raffies. Hlight
rand d. The men had Just mi shed their f Week
for froiic The path led up through stretch
p woods past the Ten Acre Lot: On the road
eeD reach tRs se Sns
the rafle. an unpainted wooden farmhouse
soSs Go knoll little The saSs hs widow 9 a sn9
aS had ssss
mony. The main room. and the one in which |
the raffle was to occur. was extremely warm. |
dry dry air to heat whole house. There were a
dozen men. one woman, and two children in the |
sss The tSs
SSome locking al The e. better
and It was bard to Imagine tina. they were the
good spirits in shouts and laugh liter on the road
5 this hs III S ESs s est t. ss
end went into an in adGning ROOM foiioTed by
as We're heard then e they esn n BACK st
none Of the visitors had anything to say. The |
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There was no response. The host kept on
counting out his change ;1 and waiting for some
dead silence. and the men stared biankly at
their boots. or the stove, or the bare wooden |
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c%stomed to shaking dice aee3rding tS poker
dice and gives Vu the @ 0f The ing hsh
est numbers; would have been at a
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were used. and the highest possible throw was
Tho host reserved one shake for himself. Land and
and aeknoSiesss % that he Wass n n SSson'eon'
ss ts? night sssi ssvsr a mind st
m Tho en lie G t. n nnS th
and some sly Jokes were passed ut the expense |
OF farmer who had n reputation for being
powerful lucky His luck wasn't with him
this gh thh0s 1 na he tsssy the s
tho stow, and said notaine. only smiling
2 iN Wh ; one 81 ne men veptured
Watching the dice with brenthless interest.
BY one Of the young men 81 Whom n We haG
expected anything.
The second raffle was q surprise, too the
turkey going to " Il rank outsider" as one OF
the men HI who had been ut horse race remark
biggest throw on the. fourth bird and won by q
Goint on the throw.oa There was u tic on the
evoked! additional interest A timid young
man in checked jumper. who sut |
the last bird, but. when the rafIle was ali over
IT turned out that two winners had been siiak-
ing for nm enterprlsipg young man who had
been sitting in hard luck until near the end
when no won bird. No THE young man had
secured three turkeys for only 80 cents "N
The party had become jovinl enough by this
time to want to continue shaking dice. hut
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