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surface of the ball, except two or three of 

 which the stumps projected a little. Another 

 instance may be mentioned, in which twelve 

 small lancets, very sharp, were fixed in a 

 similar ball of lead, which was administered 

 in the same way to a turkey-cock, and left 

 eight hours in the stomach. The organ was 

 then opened ; but nothing appeared except the 

 naked ball ; the twelve lancets having been 

 broken to pieces, the stomach remaining 

 perfectly sound and entire. I am not pre- 

 pared to say that these are not " crammers " 

 in another sense. 



The following instance of the turkey's 

 pugnacity came under my own observation. 



I was loitering about the farm one morn- 

 ing, when I witnessed a scene which was 

 novel and curious to me, and, so far as I 

 could learn, had rarely been seen by the 

 people about the place. I was watching the 

 farmer's flock of turkeys, about a score or so, 

 industriously at work under the apple trees 

 in the orchard at work with a sense of pro- 

 prietorship of the land they occupied, which 

 gave dignity and repose to their movements ; 

 just as every cock knows his own dunghill, 

 and is the lord and proud master thereof. 



I have observed, by the way, that all the 

 animals and poultry about a farm seem to 



