THE TURKEY WAS TAME
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A gentleman who was buying a turkey from old Uncle Ephraim asked him, in making the purchase, if it was a tame turkey.
“Oh, yais, sir; it’s a tame tu’key all right.”
“Now, Ephraim, are you sure it’s a tame turkey?”
“Oh, yais, sir; dere’s no so’t o’ doubt ’bout dat. It’s a tame tu’key all right.”
He consequently bought the turkey, and a day or two later, when eating it, came across several shot. Later on, when he met old Ephraim on the street, he said:
“Well, Ephraim, you told me that was a tame turkey, but I found some shot in it when I was eating it.”
“Oh, dat war a tame tu’key all right,” was Uncle Ephraim’s reiterated rejoinder, “but de fac’ is, boss, I’s gwine to tell yer in confidence, dat dem ’ere shot was intended for me.”