will suffer, though I'm not so sure about Linna. I would give almost
anything for a wild turkey."

The dusky child looked up from where she was sitting on the ground,
playing with Alice.

"Want turkey--eh?" she asked.

"Yes; have you any to sell?"

"Me get you one."

Mother and son stared in amazement. They could not believe she
was in earnest. She saw it and, with a grin, added--"Omas showed
Linna how get turkey."

"What can she be driving at?" asked the puzzled Ben. "She surely
would not say what she does without reason. Linna, teach Ben how
to get a wild turkey; we want one for supper, for if we don't have
it, we shall all have to go without food."

"Me hungry," she ventured; "so be Alice--so be you."

"You are right. Come, sister, show me how to catch a turkey."

She gravely rose from the ground. Her face appeared serious, but
those who looked at her closely detected a sparkle of the black
eyes, for all the world as if she meditated some prank upon her
confiding friends. Ben was suspicious. She added--