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Show Aleen and her daughter, Mary Katheryn, lived for a time in the newly acquired house near the pens and Aleen helped Virginia with the detailed chores. It was a good arrangement and everything went well until Aleen decided to take stenographic employment in Salt Lake City, and Virginia was left with full responsibility for her pets. She finally enlisted the aid of her grandson, John K. M. Olsen, and it developed that he gave her the most sustained and substantial help she had found. He was but ten years old when he began working with the chinchillas. After she had schooled him well in the full care of them, she was able to leave town for days at a time, secure in the knowledge that they were being cared for properly. The boy was depend- « ability itself, arising very early each morning to perform his chores before breakfast and school. Fortunately, he lived nearby, When Virginians close contact with, the chinchilla's eased, her interest in them waned. The venture had not proved to hold its excitement, nor had it been as profitable as expected. Perhaps it was because it was a hobby and not a business, and because Virginia was not able to devote full nor adequate time to making it pay. Nevertheless, she kept them-for seven or eight years before easing out of her pet proje.ct, 246 |