The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-12-19
A Turkey
COnjuratiOn

| n SdAhCy otIullcu uOWu luC ROAD
"Gobble, gobble. goblet" The two
men slumbering under the queer blan
ket embroidered with the word pres
tidigitator" stirred uneasily.
The sleeping pair woke with star
and leaped to their feet, humping
their heads smartly. The turkey, safe
after his flight over their bodies, COB
bled triumphantly outside in the gray
dawn Of the November day.
"A turkey" said the older Of the
two men, rolling his "r's" with the
unmistakable accent of a Frenchman
"A breakfast, professor" said the
other man, who in the growing light
proved to be q youth in his teens.
On came the second bird along the
culyert. Two arms reached out sim
ultaneously and two hands grabbed
As one. The result was few feathers
and the frightened turkey retreated
precipitately, with the professor and
Carlo in hot pursuit. Close ahead ap-
peared an opening through which the
turkey flew in disorder. The older
man, arriving first, rose upright, his
head through the opening.
"Sapristi a million tur-r-keys!" he
exclaimed, as his eyes swept a mass
Of the fowls. The professor was a
trife high in his guess, for he was not
looking at more than 300 turkeys, the
property OF one Abijah Jenkins, who
was conducting a little speculation
In the Thanksgiving principal dish.
Thanksgiving was not far away, and
Abijah had contrived a corner in the
local market cud proposed to make
people who ate turkey that year, pay
the limit. 1t was under his barnyard
that the culyert ran, and through an
opening made by the knocking aside
Of wooden cover, the professor was
looking.
AS the reader has probably sur
missed, the pair were a conjurer and
his assistant. obviously down on their
luck. With good outfit, Professor
Amiel had started out on the road,
proud Of skill and moustache and
goatee second only to Herman.
Lacking money for transportation,
they walked between towns, Carlo,
who never dreamed Of deserting, car
rying the box. They gave exhibitions
In halls when they could hire them
and temporar,ly-em stores when
halls were not TO be had, and lived
after a fashion. Persistent ill-luck
followed them, and they were finally
reduced to living out doors and for
aging on the country for provisions.
Sitting costly before a blazing fire,
the professor devoted himself to broil-
ing bits Of turkey which he shared
with his henchman. AS they picked
the gobbler's bones, the yard full
Of the feath ID bipeds kept rising be-
fore him.
Still immersed in thought, the pro
fessor jumped up and looked the cul-
vert over carefully. No more turkeys
were in it, for the lid was on, but the
man secuted along 1t, dodg-
ing around the barnyard and almost
the main street of the town.
Then he came back hastily, and NUT
tering disjointedly to himself in
French, he proceeded to heat a can
Of water and producing a worn razor,
shaved.
Now for zee business" he said.
The usual procedure was to find
oonfding landlord, hire a room, move
IN and advertise. This they now did,
the professor eyincing a decided pref
srence in his selection.
"Zis ees re place" he declared, and
lrove hard bargain with the owner.
he rental being payable at the close
Of the show on pain of forfeiture Of
baggage. Then the professor became
mysterious and puzzled Carlo by buy
ng big packing box at dry goods
store and sundry bits of hinges and
screws Of hardware man.
1--WE will vary re performance" he
smiled explanatorily, and asked the
way to Job printers.
The Job printer had seen the profes-
ior's kind before and was inclined to
1e cold.
Cash in advance" was his dictum.
wiz pleasure" said the magician.
a silver dollar from the
printers nose BY way Of small
Extra, he shook dozen eggs and
iundry heads Of cabbage from various
'arts of the typos clothes.
"Gosh," said that person, and the
wo put their heads together in the
Of a handbill, which by
loon was thoroughly circulated.
It was the usual itinerant magician's
program, with one variation. This
vas a paragraph headed,
A CONJURATIoN OF TURKEYS,
ind the details set forth that the most
of magIcians (after Herr
nam would produce unlimited fifteen
,ound turkeys from an empty packing
,ase, which he would sell to those who