The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-07-23
IN A MERRY CHASE
PELEG AND THE GoBBLER HAVE
ENDURANCE CONTEST.
Task Of Catching and Killing Eyesore
Of the Barnyard Proved Exclt.
ing--And the End 10
Not Vet,

"Squashville is all het up about the
excitement last Sat'day, when they
was more family quarrels started than
the minister can patch up in year.
ut 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 rail, is got to
be killed. He's got to be killed, If
have to do It, and you amt the kind of
man that'll have 1t said your wife does
the chores. You ketch him, Peleg, and
I'll 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 1t is
when got outside, there he was,
sunnin' himself south Of the barn. He
never 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, scratchin' 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 1t, and she come out
of the kitchen.
"'Peleg,' she says, don't do any
thing desprate.'
keep your tongue out of this I
says, bein' riled up so wouldn't take
advice from my grandfather. But I
didn't have time to stop. That gobbler
went down the road, me after him. At
the corner we met Squire Ez Jenkins,
goin' home with his groceries. The
turkey run between his legs, trippin'
him up, and I run bang into him.
"'Dod rot your hide, he says, gittin'
up.
II was real mad by that time.
"'You old jestice faker,' I says, git
out of my way
with that I 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 I seen Of Jay he was pullin' on
the lines and yellin' somethin. heard
afterward 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. l amt seen Jay,
but from what I heard he was riled up
some.
II never would Of caught that turkey
II 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 II
they belonged to someone else.
when got home, carryin' the COB
bier, Mary Ann was in Mysteries She
soon cooled down, though, when 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 'em
out. | feel like KILN anything that
looks at me. Don't let me cool off,
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 | shut.
but If have to stand suit for that
rig, DANCED if Mary Ann won't hear
from me further"