Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-31

to assist them. At every hop they
rose to The Top of the cage, q height
of certainly six feet. Their feet
seemed scarcely to touch the
ground at all, so rapidly did their
leaps succeed each other, Up.
mp, and up and around they went
10 maze II eaping and fappiug.
Tuis was the "Highland Fling"
aud no one who saw 1t could help
laughing.
After a miuute or two Be- pu'led
the curtain, and thanking ns, De
clared the performance over. Near
| ly everyone went away remarkirg
that there never was such "a turkey
dance, aud in the coarse OF teD
minutes another so cents werr
collected. People wondered how a
bird 81 stupid as "A turkey 'ou q
ever have been rand ," 20
through such a performance VI Isl
had nothing To do with it; b. 4
had merely raped on the Il TOR "S
signal for the dance 10 begin.
and had ratified louder for The
"Highland Fnug."
at must have taken no end OF
time aud patience to teach th u','
| remember saying to NY com-
psnion.
"May be; but doubt it, ne re
piled. 81 don't like the looks o
that Brz,r he continued. II think
it's trlckp
Some discussion ensued; then W.
went back 10 ask him hos he bad
trained the turkAvs.
Ths' fellow looked At as atten-
lively. and then gave AL ACC Iunt
of the "gI t. be pO@Sessed of co
municstiug bis "Sill' to birds aud
animals. It required months, he
stid; but kindness and persever
ance accomplished wonders.
We said to BIN thati VAS truly
a wonderful gift, and left, we'll
satisfied that he had not told US
the truth.
HIS frsnd," remarked Ton,
as we walked away. TT he had
said fatty that he did not wish to
tell us about it | shouldn't have
blamed him, tor of course IT'S his
secret. he wants to keep It, he
has right 70. I would not spy
round 10 mud it out either; bit
nov that he h 3 gone on and told
us such a fal,ehOOd I'll fnd ont
his trick II can"
! have always felt ashamed OF
the arti6ce TO which we resorted,
for I do not think that it was 0ul e
honorable, even with the motive
of exposing a deception. What
be did was TO 20 outside the idlr
grOOnds ftnce aud come round ia
the rear of the cage. b : "show'
was placed on one side of thr
grounds near the fence. ThrOngh a
ehink IN the upright boards We
watched his operations Tor az hour
or more. l. was some time before
we gained the least niut az 10 the
nature OF his gut. but We noticed
that the cage had double bottom ,
or rather two bottoms, about three
inches apart, each of sheet-irOD, al d
that " hen Dez wished 10 Stt TIE
turkeys dancing be thrust The iron
rod between the two bottoms ard
ratified 1t against them. But this
wss no adequate explanation, and
we we're i'll in the dark.
Three or -four successful exhlhl
tiOns of the dance we're gl' en- while
We we're watching. Probably the
, poor turkeys were getting tired,
tor We obserzrd that during the last
dance Bee had to rattle vigorousl,
two or three times. After lev
minutes another 80 cents was sub
r -crbed; We could hear the crow {
o calling out: "On with the dane
Keep it going~ Then we saw Be-
step back between the cage anC
the fence, so as to be concealed
from The spectators by the curtain
0 AS be poked the fire under BIZ
d oven he sly'y threw three shovel
Vt tuls of The b0ruIDg coal from th'
d stove between the two sheet iror
Is bot toms Of tue cage. Then b,
n rattled With the shovel, and, step
ping out. pulled open the curtain
d In a moment the turkeys wer
d dancing smartly; we could hea
q them hop and 6utter very plainly
e. smile even now when recaI
lie look of mingled triumph ant
Ii disgust on Toms face as he gIance'
ID at ME to see if /, too. had CON
70 pretended.
n That's his gift ~ he whispered
" The cruel little SEQ IndrcI That
10 he way be's taught The poor thing
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