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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Turkey
How bless’d, how envied were our life,Could we but ’scape the poulterer’s knife!But man, curs’d man, on turkeys preys,And Christmas shortens all our days:Sometimes with oysters we combine,Sometimes assist the savory chine.From the low peasant to the lord,The turkey smokes on every board.
Gay.