"Turkey."
"Was it very thin?"
"Very, indeed—to a proverb."
"Job's turkey?"
"You've guessed it, and with ten questions too. Now you can think, Ellen, and the rest of us will question you, in turn."
"I have a thought," said Ellen.
"Treasure it then," said Charlie Bolton; "thoughts are very rare things with me. Animal, vegetable, mineral, or spiritual?"
"Vegetable."
"In its natural or prepared state?"
"Natural."