Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A Fatherly Turkey.- The Providence Post tells the following story.
There is on the farm of Mr. Paris Mathewson, in Johnston, a male Turkey, who has the present season, set upon 21 eggs, and hatched 18 of them-having driven his better half from the nest, and taken it upon himself all the female care of domestic life, and spurned all interference from the gentler sex. This isn’t all. When his Turkeyship got his own brood out of the shell; he found that some of the women folks in the flock, had also been at work, and that there were in all sixty-seven young Turkeys to be taken care of. All these he has taken care of, and, is now a sort of lord mayor of the whole tribe, and knocks down all interfering ladies that come into his presence. he is a queer fellow; and a good one into the bargain.