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" 'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she.

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" 'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I was feeling which was the fattest.'

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" 'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you -- Jem's bird, we call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen for the market.'

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" 'Thank you, Maggie,' says l; 'but if it is all the same to you, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.'

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" 'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we fattened it expressly for you.'

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" 'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I.


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