Turkeys travel about nine miles a day, during pleasant weather, in search ov their daily bred, and are smart on a grasshopper, and red hot on a kriket. Wet weather iz bad on a turkey--a good smart shower will drown a yung one, and make an old one look and akt az tho they had just been pulled out ov a swill barrel with a pair of tongs. The maskuline turkey or gobler, as they are familiary called, hav seazons ov strutting which are immense. I hav seen them blow themselfs up with sentiments of pride or anger, and travel around a red flannel petticoat hung onto a clothes line just az tho they waz mad at the petticoat for sumthing it had, did, or sed tew them. The hen turkey alwus haz a lonesum look tew me az tho she had been abuzed bi sumboddy. Turkeys kan endure az mutch kold weather az the vane on a church steeple, i hav known them tew roost all night on the top limb ov an oak tree, with the thermometer 20 degrees belo zero, and in the morning fly down and wade through the sno in a barn-yard to cool oph. P. S.--If you kant hav kranberry with roast turkey, apple sass will do. THE HOSSTRITCH. The hosstritch iz a citizen ov the dessart, and lay an egg about the size ov a man’s hed the next day after he haz been on a bumming excursion. They resemble in size, and figger about 15 shanghi roosters at once, and are chiefly important for the feathers which inhabit their tails. The hosstritch are hunted on hossbak, and they kan trot a mile kluss to 3 minnitts. They lay their eggs in the sand, and i think the heat ov the sand hatches them out. They ain’t bilt right for hatchin out eggs, enny more than a large-sized figger 4 iz. I don’t kno whether their eggs are good tew eat or not, but i guess not for i never have seen ham and hosstritch eggs advertised on enny ov our fashionable bills ov fare. Biled hosstritch may be nourishing and may be not; I think this would depend a good deal upon who waz called upon tew eat it. I shan’t never enquire for biled hosstritch az long az i remain in mi right mind. If the hosstritch iz a blessing tew the dessert country I hope they will stay thare, for so long as we hav the turkey buzzard, and the Sandy Hill Crane, I feel az tho we could git along, and endure life. I am writing this essa on the hosstritch a good deal by guess, for i hav never seen them in their natiff land, nor never mean to, for jist so long az i kan git 3 meals a day, and liv whare grass groze, and water runs, i don’t mean tew hanker for hot sand. THE PARROT. The parrot iz a bird ov menny colours, and inklined tew talk. They take holt ov things with their foot, and hang on like a pair ov pinchers. They are the only bird i kno ov who kan konverse in the inglish language, but like meny other nu beginners, they kan learn tew swear the eazyest. They are kept az pets, and like all other pets, are useless. In a wild state ov nature, they may be ov sum use, but they looze about 90 per cent ov their value by civilizashun.