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ma, Mosss, sasd tl~ psttent chronic'er ~
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we'll sitting there a. n he had remained IN
ia clutch ~ home. -Oniy air year~ old
ami no wasn't ssose= thi=s:, aeisher. ard !
didn't sce him fer thrcs weehs after hfss
met him. So
The landlord dropped the lemon su,eessr
he was using j,sA tben. and Farmer Bill
leonard ret hls gisss Of nsw older on the
counter, while they both ttiFbod an ssssire"==
iyely ,,ncomplimentAry look on the Pochuck
cati,cn. B,t he held up oonciliatory hand
and said:
.scovls and wigglcs aint eoin' 70 change
Twin facts' Foller my sorrowin' words.
an you'll sec that u was livin' fact that
didn't gee Moses not till three weeks after
first met him.
.One day I was a wanderin' along the
poohuok. an In bunch o. reeds ! found an
ees A tremendous big egg. picked IL
I'M an hurried with II to Uncle DAVID
Beckendarter. ~,
'Rha hadamanths, says he. Where did
you git it'
lie. I did not lay It. found It over along
the Pochuck'
.IJnole David no took the egg an looked
It over, an then he says:
It's a wild goose egg says he' It's
nice an fresh, an think well COOK IT,
says he.
Uncle David Gays I. why not mix 1t
I'D with the turkey eggs an hatch it?'
..Fer one who amt no older than you bt
Rhadamanthus,' says he that amt bad
idee We will hatch the egg says he.
$50 we put 1t under the old settin' turkey
hen, an she settled down an went 70 Work
on to it. In three weeks time there come
out with the turkey brood goslin'.
THE very first thing it done was to waddle
I'D to me an stick up one OF its little web
feet to shake hands with me; but II you
scowl an wiggle 30 III be afeard you don't
want to know why that goslin' done it! 1t
done it cause it knowed somehow or other
that 1 had saved it's life 30 it had to como
to he what it was, instead O. bein' cooked
fer breakfast when it want only an egg
Il shook hands with the gosin' an named
IL Moses. bein's as / had found 1t, so to
sneak in the bulrushes An this was the
first time 1 had see Moses. though l had
met him three weeks before.
after shakin' hands with me Moses
want hack to his cluclin' old turkey mother
an his turkey brothers an sisters. That
eoslin' growed like pig weed In an onion
patch, an as he growed me an him got to
be like two brothers.
Fer forty-three years we lived together
on the farm we was born on, an now-well,
You kin figser it fer yourselves. thenl
-Forty-nine years old last grass was,
an Moses passed away only Yesterday!
skeeroely in the prime O. life yit. he wasn't
an he had to 60! Fggers won't lie, an
there they be!
aAnd Moses would never reco'nize
goose. Never! But he liked turkeys. He
use to hobnob with 'em, an they looked
I'D to him. An 40 they orto done. An
| kin tell you why.
.One day Aunt Sally says to Uncle David:
David says she, the preacher ia on
the circuit, an tomorrow is our day fer
havin' of him to dinner. an there amt
a yaller legged chicken on the farm!' says
abe.
Never mind says Uncle David.
There's some nice fat turkeys, an I've
noticed says he, that prea ohers don't