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THE TURKEY'S THANKSGIVING

Once upon a time there lived on a farm a turkey. This Thanksgiving the people chose him to eat. They caught him and put him in a cage.

"What shall I do?", said the turkey. "I don't want to be eaten."

Suddenly he thought of a plan. "I will pretend to be dead." So he lay down and closed his eyes. Then a queer thing happened. He went to sleep. When he awoke he was in a room. He was still in a cage. In the cage with him were ten other turkeys. They told him they were very sad because they were about to be bought for Thanksgiving dinner. They were chosen one by one until his turn came. The man was about to cut his head off when the other man said, "I want him alive."

"That's better thought the turkey."

The man put him in a bag and carried him off. This man lived on a farm. When he got to the farm he put the turkey in a field full of corn. How happy the turkey was! As he walked along picking up grains of corn he saw another turkey. "Hello", he said, "I will tell you the story of my adventure while we have our Thanksgiving."

Doris Blake.

Nov. 1936- Henry Clay Twitter