Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 123
can easily beguileyou to eat unceasingly of his luscious grains. Do I notknow? Was I not myself an innocent young bird, un-used to the snares and wickedness of the world? Butknow that he but thinks of the day when he can see youon his table, the car\ing-knife about to be plunged in your breast !… … (would the In-dians had roastedhim, as his de-scendants will me !)caught sight of oneof niy revered an-cestors. From thatday of woe noturkeys life hasbeen safe from thecradle to the grave. Even I, a bird ofsuper-turkey intel-ligence, stuffed un-ceasingly all Far-mer Green wouldgive me. See…
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