A POLITICIAN seeing a fat Turkey which he wanted for dinner, baited

　　a hook with a grain of corn and dragged it before the fowl1 at the

　　end of a long and almost invisible line. When the Turkey had

　　swallowed the hook, the Politician ran, drawing the creature after

　　him.

　　"Fellow-citizens," he cried, addressing some turkey-breeders whom

　　he met, "you observe that the man does not seek the bird, but the

　　bird seeks the man. For this unsolicited and unexpected dinner I

　　thank you with all my heart."