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This is the part II of a twopart article on the turkey.
There is something distinctly American about the Wild Turkey; they are large, powerful and fast and, when erect and alert, stand three to four feet tall and weigh an average of 16 pounds for males, or Toms. Females, or hens, average about nine and one half pounds. There is, on record, a Tom weighing just under 24 pounds!
Turkeys prefer acorns but will eat any kind of grain, wild berry, or fruit along with frogs, salamanders, lizards, snakes and grasshoppers. Distinctly American, I would say: we will eat anything so long as it tastes good.
How did the expression “talking turkey” come to be? I went to the Rappahannock library with my question. “Bare facts,” said Stella Clark, of the library staff, “No glossing over.” “Down to brass tacks,” came from library director, David Shaffer. Now that could have sent me off in another direction for I am mightily interested in the derivation of idiomatic expressions. Somehow I could not
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