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Updated: May 14, 2025
On the way they passed a small house, or pen, such as chickens are kept in, and from it came a loud: "Gobble-obble-obble!" "What's that?" asked Mun Bun. "Is it a hand-organ monkey?" "Oh, no!" laughed Grandpa Ford. "That's our prize turkey, and do you know what he says?" "Did he say anything?" asked Russ. "Oh, indeed he did!" said Grandpa Ford with a laugh.
And as Splash bounded out he knocked over the cage where the turkey gobbler "elephant" was kept. "Gobble-obble-obble!" went the turkey, as it flew across the barn. Children screamed, and some of them backed up against the cage of roosters, so it broke open and the crowing roosters were loose.
In an instant he turned the nozzle, and aimed the hose at the turkey which still had hold of the poor dog's tail. All over the turkey splashed the water, and as the big bird tried to gobble, and keep hold of Splash's tail at the same time, and as the water went down its throat, the noise, instead of "Gobble-obble-obble," sounded like "Gurgle-urgle-urgle." "There!
As he spoke the turkey made a rush for him, keeping off the ground with outstretched wings and claws. He went: "Gobble-obble-obble!" in loud tones as though trying to scare the children. Tom was ready with a heavy stick he had caught up, and as the big bird sailed at him through the air the lad aimed a blow at the gobbler. But the turkey seemed to be on the lookout for this, and dodged.
On this particular morning Peter happened to be sitting under some ferns on the edge of a little open space among the trees when again he heard that strange voice. It seemed to come from somewhere back in the woods in the very direction from which he had just come. "Gobble-obble-obble!" said the voice, and again a moment later "Gobble-obble-obble!"
Unable to stand the sight of the big bird, with outspread and drooping wings, with all his feathers puffed out to make him look twice as large as he really was, and with an angry "Gobble-obble-obble" coming from his beak, Splash ran. It was no wonder, for the turkey was a terrifying sight. I think even a tiger, a lion or perhaps an elephant would have run. "Come back!
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