Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1879 — An Unfortunate Turkey. [ARTICLE]

An Unfortunate Turkey.

A Glenburn farmer came into the city, recently, and among other things purchased some rice andapintof whisky. Fearing that the bottle might get broken on the way homo, ho placed it in the box containing the rice. When he reached home and took the box from the pung he found that the stopple had got Out of the bottle, and rice and—w-bteky wwe-thoroughly-mixod. He dumped the contents of the box behind the barn, and in a short time a huge turkey came along, and, as he was not as" particular as the farmer, gobbled up the medicated rice. Short13' after this the farmer was greatly surprised to.find the turkey lying out behind the barn “ dead as a door-nail,” and vowing vengeance on the man who sold him whisky rank enough to kill a turkey, ho carried the bird into the house. The farmer was soon after seen carrying the naked t>ird—as every feather was gone vyitb the’exception of the wings and tail—out behind the stable. where he left it on the snow. The next morning when he entered the stable, it being hardly light, he detected what he .thought wa*Hhe ghost of that intemperate turkey, and could almost feel his hair rise; but he made up his mind to investigate the matter and boldly adyftnoem Imagine his surprise, on petting nearer, to discover the bird shivering on the roost, and looking at him with reproachful eyes for having stolen his clothes while helplessly drunk. At last accounts the turkey was doing as-well as could be expected during that zero weather—Bangor (Me.) Whig. ■No wosDBB the peoplf hive confidence, when the beet . physicians are prescribing Dr. Bull’s Cough Byrap in all cues of Cough, Cold, etc.