| Show make anything nice So we just got our little curly heads together and came up with what we thought wasterrific idea In action the idea went Tike this we filledtin can with wheat from the granary and began calling Here chickie here chickie chickie even if it wasnchicken feeding time All the barnyard fowl came running and began picking at the grain being scattered with circular arm movements Then came the crucial time the fulfillment of the idea As one of us approachedbig rooster she grabbed its tail and swung it up in the air and around her head One tail feather came out or maybe two The gesture was repeated time after time and before we knew it we hadTot of de-tailed roosters and we had enough big colorful tail feathers to makenice feather duster for Mammabirthday present Tied together withstring we considered the duster an original and useful item Mamma kissed us and thanked us when we made the presentation but nevertheless she looked surprised and puzzled Often we wondered why we never saw her using the feather gift as she dusted the furniture in the front room UNPOPULAR PETS Esther Christensen Mt Pleasant Utah Non-Professional Division Honorable Mention Anecdote Ki and Ote the boys called them were two little pups which Joe and Frank Jorgensen farm home The found four miles out of Mt little coyotes female dog at the farm with pets Mrs must rabbits Joe and coyotes incoyote thrived den on the Pleasant on bank of Cedar Utah the diet of dog milk Creek near furnished their by They became most interesting pets but lost favor Jorgensen when they began devouring her little chickens So the be disposed of The Ericksen boys who lived in town brought some to the farm and exchanged for Frank accompanied the coyotes were established in their new the coyotes When the trade was made and the new owners to town where the home When the Jorgensen boys returned to their fur but home in the Bottoms they found no rabbits--only Ki and Ote were comfortably housed in the rabbit Source This incident took place in the 1880as Frank was born in 1877 and Joe in 1880 An older sister of the two Jorgensen boys told the story some scattered pen |
