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"ZjJZTn 000£6 i ?o tunxs'’rv~:* ?-n.or".*i C/fr f TRT'r;;T-c. Iir-IVITA'AL ^AL’:. TO iOUr U'IVES "ovember 21, l3*+6 Daily Picayune - November 21, 18^6 - p •+ c 1 TURKEY DRIVING ^he occupation of turkey driving h-°s always struck us as a narticularly unenviable one, an'1 calculated to excite the pity of every class of the community except that unfortunate race of beings called Pig-drivers, who are so afflicted by the perplexitiess of their own pculiar callin? that they have not time to bestow a commiserating thought upon their sufferin? fellow creatures. The turkey drivers1 life is extremely monotonous, and although his flock are infinitely more docile than a drove of sv'ne, they are sometimes quite as unmanageable. To a northerner it is quite a novel sight to see half a dozen score of gawkey, long-legged turkeys, with necks outstretched and feathers in a most unbecoming state of disorder, trotting up a street followed by a couple of individuals ->ith short-handled ■'■.’hips and long lashes, better adapted from thei? character, one vo"ld suppose, to reduce some obstinate pi? hes.de* rule to 1 smb-1 ike docility, than touching up a gobbler "on the raw." The dexterity of the fowl’s in avMding the wheels of carts and hoofs of horses and mules, is astonishing: and alt hough their movements -re destitut - of sr^ce, they a-,e a? r:-pid as Airpudin in avoiding danger. Purchasers are sure of gettlr.? their poultry fresh if *hev buy it fr0B th« nock "on the h00f>" th*y C! it for the ^crif^e
Coast General Turkey-Driving-1846-(1)