LETTER No. V. 



TURKEYS AND PEACOCKS. 



" Should I, however, in the course of my loiterings about 

 this old mansion see or hear anything curious that might 

 serve to vary the monotony of this every-day life, I shall not 

 fail to report upon it for the reader's entertainment." 

 Bracebridge Hall. 



URKEYS, especially at a certain 

 season of the year, appeal with 

 irresistible attractiveness, not only 

 to anglers, but to all men ; and as for pea- 

 cocks does not their delicate plumage con- 

 tribute largely to an angler's beatitude ? 



Its English name is said to have been given 

 to this bird from a mistaken notion that it was 

 originally brought to England from Turkey ; 

 and in the account of the battle given below 

 I have assumed that the turkey is a Turk in 

 his origin ; but I believe it is now well known 

 that he was imported from America pro- 

 bably by Sir Walter Raleigh and it is pos- 



