Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — Transmigrating Turkey. [ARTICLE]

Transmigrating Turkey.

“The only time I ever believed in the / Xnyißinigration of souls was one frosty November afternoon on my Indiana farm.” The speaker was George Ade, tbe humorist. He continued: "It was a day or two before Thanksgiving. The trees were bare. The fields were a russet-brown color. Toward me over those russet fields strutted a very plump, very large, very young turkey. “Then it was that an ardent belief in tbe doctrine of metempsychosis seized me. “’You,’ I said to the superb bird, ‘you are now a turkey. And you will die tomorrow. But, cheer up. Your next transmigration will be into tbe body of a humorist not unknown to fame.’”