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Updated: May 20, 2025
"This is my home and little girls can't wear red dresses when they visit me. Pffff! Get away!" The little girl turned to run as the big Gobbler came puffing toward her. In her fright she stumbled and fell, and he hurried forward to strike her. The Black Spanish Cock began to ruffle his neck feathers and stretch his head forward. He did not mean to have their visitor treated so.
Up and up they went, and spreading as they rose, until there was a wonderful great circle of them back of his body and reaching far above his head. The Gobbler's spread tail looked as small beside this as a Dove's egg would beside that of a Goose. "Paon!" said the Peacock. "I am no Turkey Gobbler. I am a Peacock." "Pffff!" said the Gobbler. Then he turned to the Hen Turkeys.
"Pffff!" said the Gobbler. "That is not my way. I say right out what I think, and then I am all right again and forget all about it." "Humph!" said the Bantam Hen. "I wonder if the other people forget as soon? It would do him more good to remember it and feel sorry. He needs a lesson." Then she stalked up to him, looking as brave as you please, although she was really quite frightened.
He drew up his neck and puffed out his chest; he pulled his skin muscles by thinking about them, and that made his feathers stand on end; next he dropped his wings until their tips touched the ground; then he slowly spread his tail. "Pffff!" said he. "I am no Peacock. I am a Turkey Gobbler." The Hen Turkeys looked at each other with much pride.
He ran between the Gobbler's feet and they tumbled over together. The little girl picked herself up and hurried into the house. If the Gobbler was angry before, he was much more so after his fall. "What do you mean, sir," he said, "by tripping me?" "And what do you mean," said the Black Spanish Cock, "by knocking me over?" "Pffff! You were under my feet." "Erruuuu! You were over my head."
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