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hot cage. Only one of them, more docile than the 

 other three, began to jump about a little. The 

 others, it is true, looked up, and seemed, as it were, 

 astonished. I was then fully convinced that they 

 would all shortly learn to dance, if I continued the 

 same method of giving them lessons. I accord- 

 ingly continued on, in the same manner, for twenty 

 days more ; at the end of which, I let them loose 

 one day in a room, and began to strike violently 

 upon the triangle. All four of the turkies began 

 to skip and run about, keeping pretty close to one 

 another, and changing every minute their position. 

 It was the most ludicrous, and, at the same time, 

 entertaining sight imaginable. The impression 

 which the sound of the triangle had made upon 

 them, on account of their having felt the heat at 

 the bottom of the cage, every time they had heard 

 that music, became a lasting one ; and they would 

 begin to dance, ever after, though in the yard 

 amidst the other turkies, whenever they heard the 

 sound of that instrument. They generally separa- 

 ted themselves from the others, and run together. 

 They may be taught with any other instrument, as 

 well as with the triangle. It will take much 

 longer to teach a dog, than a turkey. The reason 

 is, as I suppose, that the dog is not so easily de- 

 ceived. The only difficulty attending this mode 

 of teaching turkies to dance is, to keep your tin 



