Judge — November 21, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Who's Who at Thanksgiving Dinner The Turkey AM the TURKEY roast, Who's given up the ghost To feed the inner man of every thankful wight Who takes delight In sacrificing appetite to show His gratitude for blessings here below. They call me Gobbler; natheless, all my gobbling, From distant days of spring, Through summer and the fall, Has been designed all That fatness should be mine when on The platter I should rest anon, And from my breast give succor at the feast That celebrates man’s joys increased. My limbs, my wings, aye, e’en my papal nose Rare sweetnesses disclose; And, strange to say, it fills my soul with glee To have the stuffing rare knocked out of me. The Cranberry lam the CRANBERRY. The poets speak of me As but a saucy thing that, like the frog, Comes from the bog And boasts no lengthy line Of ancestors divine. 'Tis maybe true; and yet From me and mine hath no man reaped regret. 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