Turkey hen

It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger.

The Madison, 1843, edition, from which the following paragraph is taken, differs slightly from the later texts: […] I told the old woman more ’n twenty times that mother’s old turkeyhen was settin on fourteen eggs.

The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings, I see in them and myself the same old law.

Here and there among the great gathering could be seen odd couples of brave-appearing young gobblers and neat little turkeyhens who talked in quieter tones and spoke of the end which faced them on the morrow.

Turkeys moved fairly well with turkeyhens bringing 25@28c per pound, and toms 20@22c.

In the center is tribute, consisting of two blankets, perfumes, a copper axe, a basket of tamales, a stewed turkeyhen and a cup of chocolate.