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    The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales
    The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales
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    The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales

    By Harry L. Smith and Arthur Scott Bailey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales - Harry L. Smith

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      Title: The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot

      Slumber-Town Tales

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Illustrator: Harry L. Smith

      Release Date: June 16, 2007 [EBook #21844]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF TURKEY PROUDFOOT ***

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      THE TALE OF TURKEY PROUDFOOT

      The Geese Hissed at Turkey Proudfoot.

      Frontispiece—(Page 16)

      Copyright, 1921, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE TALE OF TURKEY PROUDFOOT

      I

      A STRUTTER

      All the hen turkeys thought Turkey Proudfoot a wonderful creature. They said he had the most beautiful tail on the farm. When he spread it and strutted about Farmer Green's place the hen turkeys were sure to nudge one another and say, Ahem! Isn't he elegant?

      But the rest of the farmyard folk made quite different remarks about him. They declared Turkey Proudfoot to be a silly, vain gobbler, noisy and quarrelsome.

      Now, there was truth in what everybody thought and said about this lordly person, Turkey Proudfoot. He did have a huge tail, when he chose to spread it; and his feathers shone with a greenish, coppery, bronzy glitter that might easily have turned the head of anybody that boasted such beautiful colors. Certainly the hen turkeys turned their heads—and craned their necks—whenever Turkey Proudfoot came near them. And when he spoke to them, saying "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" in a loud tone, they were always pleased.

      The hen turkeys seemed to find that remark, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" highly interesting. But everybody else complained about the noise that Turkey Proudfoot made, and said that if he must gobble they wished he would go off by himself, where people didn't have to listen to him.

      And nobody but the hen turkeys liked the way Turkey Proudfoot walked. At every step he took he raised a foot high in the air, acting for all the world as if the ground wasn't good enough for him to walk upon. And when he wasn't picking up a seed, or a bit of grain, or an insect off the ground, he held his head very high. Often Turkey Proudfoot seemed to look right past his farmyard neighbors, as if he were gazing at something in the next field and didn't see them. But they soon learned that that was only an odd way of his. Really, he saw about everything that went on. If anybody happened to grin at him Turkey Proudfoot was sure to take notice at once and try to pick a quarrel.

      After all, perhaps it wasn't strange that Turkey Proudfoot should act as he did. Being the ruler of Farmer Green's whole flock of turkeys, he was somewhat spoiled. All the hen turkeys did about as he told them to do. Or if they didn't, Turkey Proudfoot thought that they obeyed his orders. And the younger gobblers as well had to mind him. If they didn't, Turkey Proudfoot fought them until they were ready to gobble for mercy.

      Having whipped the younger gobblers a good many times, Turkey Proudfoot firmly believed that he could whip anything or anybody. And there was nobody on the farm, almost, at

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