`` Aunt Augusta is going to kill my gobbler , '' he sobbed in Miss Avery 's arms . `` She says she is n't going to bother with him any longer -- and he 's getting old -- and he 's to be killed . And that gobbler is the only friend I have in the world except you . Oh , I ca n't stand it , Miss Avery . '' Next day Aunt Augusta told him the gobbler had been sold and taken away . And Jims flew into a passion of tears and protest about it and was promptly incarcerated in the blue room . A few minutes later a sobbing boy plunged through the trees -- and stopped abruptly . Miss Avery was reading under the beech and the Black Prince was snoozing on her knee -- and a big , magnificent , bronze turkey was parading about on the lawn , twisting his huge fan of a tail this way and that . '' My gobbler ! '' cried Jims . `` Yes . Martha went to your uncle 's house and bought him . Oh , she did n't betray you . She told Nancy Jane she wanted a gobbler and , having seen one over there , thought perhaps she could get him . See , here 's your pet , Jims , and here he shall live till he dies of old age . And I have something else for you -- Edward and Martha went across the river yesterday to the Murray Kennels and got it for you . '' `` Not a dog ? '' exclaimed Jims . `` Yes -- a dear little bull pup . He shall be your very own , Jims , and I only stipulate that you reconcile the Black Prince to him . ''
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