Intelligence Displayed by Turkey Proved Him the “Right Bird in the Right Place.
    Unlike the ordinary run of turkeys, Ben, a mammoth bronze gobbler that one of our contributors owned, had a great deal of sense. One day, our friend writes, our nearest neighbor’s entire flock of turkeys invaded our farmyard and soon started a ‘free-for-all” fight with our birds. The two old gobblers engaged in combat; young gobblers fought young gobblers; and old turkey hens clashed.
    A week later one of the women of our family saw the same flock coming down the road, and ours going across the farmyard apparently to meet them. She turned back into the house to get her sunbonnet and the broom, but when she went out not one of the home flock was in sight. A moment later Ben emerged alone from behind the big straw stack in the barnyard, crossed the yard and met the intruders. Seizing the leader firmly by the neck, he marched him up the road toward his home. The visitor’s numerous family, evidently too much astonished to do anything else, meekly followed.
    Looking behind the straw stack, she saw Ben’s flock crouched perfectly still in the straw. Not one of them stirred or made a sound until Ben returned and led them into the farmyard, where he strutted proudly before them with the air of one who had done his duty well. Could anyone have handled a difficult situation more intelligently?-Youth’s Companion.
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