The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-09-15
In A MERRY CHASE
PElEe AND THE eoBBLER HAVE
ENDURANCE CONTEST.
Task Of Catching and Killing Eyesors
Of the 5arnyard Proved Excit-
ina-And the End Is
Not Yet.

"Squashville is all het up about thu
excitement last Sat'day. when they
was more family quarrels started than
the minister can patch up in a year.
1T was started by Mary Ann, who
amt quarrelsome, takin' it day in and
day out. And Mary Ann says she's
glad it happened.
She says to me, Sat'day morning,
'Peleg, that old gobbler that we been
keepin' around the barn for years, jest
because he is thin as a rail, is got to
be killed. He's got to be killed, if 1
have to do it, and you amt the kind Of
man thatll have it said your wife does
the chores. You ketch him, Peieg. and
III cook him, if he's poorn the turkey
Job had, as the minister says
Mary Ann, l says, that turkey
amt fit TO kill. But if you say kill
him, kill him it is
When 1 got outside, there he was,
sunnin' himself south Of the barn. He
was shy before, specially When
they was anything to eat, but when he
seen me comm, he dropped his wings
and flew for the henhouse.
DANCED if the old boy amt wiser'n
an owl, | say, 'runnin' away that way
| dropped my AK, and took after him.
He run in the coop, and | thought I'd
git him easy, but when l got in he
sailed over my head, s%cratchin' out
more HARM the barber cuts off for a
quarter, and out he went and down the
road.
My blood was up by that time.
Mary Ann seen it, and she come out
Of the kitchen.
Peleg,' she says, don't do any
thing es'prate.'
Keep your tongue out of this, ]
says, bein' riled up so I wouldn't take
advice from my grandfather. But ]
didn't have time to stop. That gobble!
went down the road, me after him. AT
the corner We met Squire E. jenkins.
goin' home with his groceries. The
turkey run between his legs. trippin
him up, and l run bang into him.
bod rot your hide he says, gittin'
up.
Il was real mad by that time.
You old jestice faker,' l says, git
out of my way
With that 1 left him, the turkey
bein' some ahead.
Jay Home was drivin' in from the
Corners with a ~travelin' man. and
DANCED if that turkey didn't scare
them colts so they run half a mile.
Last l seen of Jay he was pullin' on
the lines and yellin' somethin. l heard
atterward that the travelin' man re-
fused to pay for the rig, and Jay has
served notice of a suit in Ez jenkins
court for damages. 1 amt seen Jaw.
but from what I heard he was riled up
some.
Il never would of caught that turkey
IL Mis- Home and Mis- Busby hadn't
come out of Hen Busby's store to-
gether. He run between them. and
they got him. Mis- Home always was
good at ketchin' poultry. specially if
they belonged to someone else.
When I got home. carryin' the COB
bier, Mary Ann was in Mysteries. She
soon cooled down. though, when l had
the DANCED thing layin' on the ground
with his head of.
But says to her, Mary Ann, if
they is any other fowls around this
place that ought to be killed. trot en-
out. feel like KILN, anything that
looks at me. Don't let me cool of.
says. Bring On your fowl
Peleg,' she says, git in the house
and shut your CAB. You been maxim
show enough Of the family
And l shut.
But if I have TO stand suit for that
rig, DANCED if Mary Ann won't hear
from me further"